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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:09:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: setup versioning
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT 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 AT yahoo DOT com>
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