[Freeciv-Dev] Re: LXR

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:58:29PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Reinier Post wrote:
> > > > well, 1.15.0-devel, either that or 1.14.99-devel
> > >
> > > I think we agreed one sunny day that it shouldn't have a version number at
> > > all, it should merely be CVS+date. It turned out to be more difficult done
> > > than said, though, so nobody has implemented it yet. 1.14.99-devel isn't a
> > > bad idea, either.
> >
> > What is the difficulty?It can't be that hard to replace one version string
> > with another ... does anything rely on them being numbers?
> 
> The difficulty lies in updating the version string every day. Certainly,
> __DATE__ would do that, but how do you force a recompile of
> common/version.h and not everything else for every recompile?

If that is an issue, move it to version.c and put an accessor function
in version.h.

Why not just use cvs-branchname as the version name?
The date doesn't fully identify the source code used anyway.
Only when you know at what time the snapshot was taken.

> Also, configure.in and configure.ac would need the same info. That can be
> fixed by reading the output of a small C-compilation test, though.
> 
>   - Per

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Reinier