Re: Bump of release?

Greg Stein wrote:
>
> We have that today. The tarballs are distributed such that you build them
> and get "0.16.1 (r4276)" as the long version name. But if you get a copy of
> Subversion from source control, then it will be "0.16.1 (dev build)".
>
> I like the + idea, and can certainly arrange that.
>
> The one thing that we can't do for a dev build is have "the" revision number
> appear in the executable. As has been said many times before, when you
> build, you could have a mixed-revision working copy, so there is no single
> revision number to insert.

We've also said that most of the svn developers don't use mixed rev
working copy, probably because most people have a single commit ready
to go into the tree, run make check and then do the commit.

Also, if there were mixed rev copies, then a revision range, or just
the different revisions in the tree, could be printed, which would
imply a more complicated build.

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
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