David Holland <dholland-sourcechan...@netbsd.org> writes: > > Again, I think that if one wanted to be serious about > > this, one would need to have manual management of version > > numbers. > > Yes. > > Anyhow, I talked to sjg about this and the conclusion is that > MAKE_VERSION does need
Is this a real need? Anyway... > For now the makefile should pass a fixed date stamp (may as well go > with 20090326) and at some future point we can move this out of the > makefile and create a version.h for it. I'd would create a version.h right now, it would be simple enough. > The version should be bumped when new language features are added, > akin to config(1)'s version. > > Do you want to do this or should I? I don't see the real usefulness of the thing, but it doesn't seem like it will cause any real harm so so long as it doesn't incorporate the *build* date. If you want it and you're willing to do the work, go for it. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com
