Ben Bolker <bbolker <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> I'm trying to keep debugging of a development package relatively sane.
>
...
>
> Or can people suggest other useful strategies for keeping track of
> which development (micro-)version a random user might be working with?
>
Rather than update the DESCRIPTION file, rgeos includes the SVN revision
in the startup messages, by copying in ./configure (here ./configure.in):
if test -e ".svn" ; then
svnversion -n > inst/SVN_VERSION
fi
and testing for the file in R/AAA.R:
fn <- system.file("SVN_VERSION", package="rgeos")
if (file.exists(fn)) {
svn_version <- scan(system.file("SVN_VERSION", package="rgeos"),
what=character(1), sep="\n", quiet=TRUE)
} else {
svn_version <- "(unknown)"
}
Clunky, and inst/SVN_VERSION isn't in svn itself, but it does work if the
build machine uses SVN and is up-to-date. I think I'll try to use the
DESCRIPTION Revision tag too. Naturally, this is feasible in packages
using ./configure already. The package is on R-Forge, so the implicated
files can be browsed online.
Roger
> thanks,
> Ben Bolker
>
>
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