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Re: setup versioning
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>, cygwin-developers at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: setup versioning
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:09:30 -0700 (PDT)
--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
>
> I was just thinking that the CVS revision of "ChangeLog" might be a
> good automatic version number for setup (aside from the fact that it's
> 1.x instead of 2.x, but I can fix that).
>
IMO, that won't work well. What happens if the ChangeLog is updated more than
once between distributions?
> Another thought is to auto-tag all the source files, and provide a
> dialog that shows them all, for troubleshooting purposes. A grep or
> sed could be used to build a .h from all the *.c keywords in their
> comments.
>
> Comments?
Perhaps strings similar to what's in the cygwin1.dll would be helpful. Then
one could grep for %%% in the executable for build information. Personally I
don't see anything wrong with a generated version.c to control versioning
information.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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