Re: [CORE] [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Monday, 9. June 2008 schrieb Tom Lane: > >> So while tagging the upcoming releases, I got annoyed once again about > >> what a tedious, error-prone bit of donkeywork it is. > > > Could you explain what the problem is? Your scri

Re: [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Monday, 9. June 2008 schrieb Tom Lane: >> So while tagging the upcoming releases, I got annoyed once again about >> what a tedious, error-prone bit of donkeywork it is. > Could you explain what the problem is? Your script sounds like an ad hoc >

Re: [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Monday, 9. June 2008 schrieb Tom Lane: > So while tagging the upcoming releases, I got annoyed once again about > what a tedious, error-prone bit of donkeywork it is. Could you explain what the problem is? Your script sounds like an ad hoc workaround for some problem, but I haven't seen the p

Re: [CORE] [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> What I was thinking was just to have the script >> print out something like >> >> Tagged tree as 8.3.4 >> Don't forget to run autoconf 2.59 before committing > I like that one ... I've checked in a script to do this --- executin

Re: [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-09 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Tom Lane wrote: I'm tempted to suggest letting the script invoke autoconf, too, but that would require standardizing where to find the correct version of autoconf for each branch; so it might not be such a great idea. Unfortunately that's true. Maybe we could agree on

Re: [CORE] [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, June 08, 2008 21:27:03 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> I'm tempted to suggest letting the script invoke autoconf, too, >>> but that would require standardiz

Re: [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I'm tempted to suggest letting the script invoke autoconf, too, >> but that would require standardizing where to find the correct >> version of autoconf for each branch; so it might not be such a >> great idea. > Unfortunately that'

Re: [HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: I'm tempted to suggest letting the script invoke autoconf, too, but that would require standardizing where to find the correct version of autoconf for each branch; so it might not be such a great idea. Unfortunately that's true. Maybe we could agree on using an alias

[HACKERS] Automating our version-stamping a bit better

2008-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
So while tagging the upcoming releases, I got annoyed once again about what a tedious, error-prone bit of donkeywork it is. You've got to find and update the sub-version numbers, and *not* any chance occurrence of the same strings (eg s/20/21/g for version 7.4.21 would've mangled some copyright da