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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2479) Change version string of development versions
From: "Raimar Falke via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:10:17 -0800
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:42:54PM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> 
> [rfalke - Tue Dec  3 08:01:57 2002]:
> 
> > Development version should use a string of the format "CVS <date>"
> > where <date> is in ISO date like 2002-12-03 instead of the current
> > "1.14.1-devel". The date should be the build date.

Another alternative would be to have a file which is committed
after/with every normal commit. This file contains something like:

#define MASTER_REVISION="$Id 1.45$"

and at runtime we build a version string ("1.14.1-45" for example)
from this.

Reinier: is this possible? How much work required?

        Raimar

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