Re: RFE: allow for computed version number

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> You could then experiment with suitable rules to keep the file up to
> date, depending on the VCS.  VCS hooks could ensure to update (or
> remove, or otherwise outdate) the file.  All rules that need the version
> can just depend upon the file, and read from it afterwards, that nicely
> avoids any duplicate work.  The file should conceptually live in the
> source tree as it is a source property not a build one (though newline
> encoding may make this a bit ugly for cross-platform mounts).
> Maintainer mode could even be used to avoid updates to this file.
>
> What do you think of this approach?

Doesn't any approach which depends on an automatically generated file 
assure that the version control system is one step out of date? 
Every time you do a 'commit' the version file is one step newer and 
therefore needs to be committed.

VCS hooks depend on the ability of the version control system, and the 
package owner's ability to maintain the version control system.

Bob
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