Whatever you end up deciding to do here, could you
make sure that this works across platforms & doesn't introduce
unnecessary dependencies on platform-specific tools?
(As is, win32 builds are broken.)
version.h has the benefit of being simple..
--sigbjorn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey R Lewis"
On Friday 04 October 2002 02:56 am, Ross Paterson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:16:42PM -0700, Jeff Lewis wrote:
lewie 2002/10/03 21:16:42 PDT
Modified files: src Makefile.in Added files: src version.h.in Removed files: src version.h Log: Automatically generate dates for version strings. Override automatic dates by editing version.h.in.
Wouldn't it be better if version.h were generated by configure rather than make? And if you used the 3-letter month name, there'd be room for RC1 etc.
If it were generated by configure, it would most certainly be out of date most of the time (but perhaps you re-run configure more than I do ;-).
For RC1-ish things, those will be the least common form of version name, and in that case, I'd just override by tweaking version.h.in.
But, we could have another switch in that file that generates an `RC' form of release string which uses the 3-letter form.
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