On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Mads Kiilerich<[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Do you plan to release rpms as a part of the release process? How will the
> procedure be, and how can the rpm build system hook into it and get the
> version number?

I will tag 0.8 on July 1.  If it takes a day or so to get RPMs built,
I'm ok with that.  I personally don't have any Fedora machines to
build them on (I quit using RedHat/Fedora around 2004).

Our releases even on Windows are woefully un-automated at the moment.
I'm hoping that gets improved over the course of the week.

> Which version number should be used if users build their own rpm from their
> local repo? It would be nice if it had some relation to the official release
> numbers, and it should be ever-increasing-ish. Should we adopt a
> functionality similar to the one used in Mercurial?

Mercurial doesn't have a terribly good solution for this that I know
of.  There is the 'nearest' extension that gives you 'nearest
tag'+'longest ancestry to tip', but it's not a core feature.

If you don't care too much about 'increasingness', I'm ok with
'nearest tag'+'tip hash' like Mercurial uses for stable builds.   It's
not obvious how to automate that, though.

--
Steve Borho

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