Re: versioning rant

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> I presume that NetBSD uses CVS keywords in every file for this
> identification?

Every file has a CVS keyword. We also have static chars that include
the CVS keywords in strings that get incorporated into executables.

> > perhaps a $RepositoryPath$ keyword that expands to the file's actual
> > path in the repository, which would show you what branch/tag it's on.
> >
> > actually, we already have a $URL$ keyword, which looks like it would
> > expand to what we want. you combine that with the $rev$ keyword and
> > you can have something in each file that uniquely identifies what
> > version and what branch it came from.
>
> Exactly:

The only issue on that -- and this might sound silly but it isn't --
is that you end up with strings that are a lot longer than you need
them to be. That might sound silly but it isn't -- you can end up with
a much less readable string and with lots of wasted space in the
binaries (and sometimes that can be a LOT of space...)

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@wasabisystems.com
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