[Axiom-developer] Automatic update of version number

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Cliff --

   When I switched to Autoconf, one of the first thing I did was
to have the version number be part of configure and propagate
from there down -- Autoconf can do that very easily.

   One thing I put on my todo list but never felt an urgent need
to implement was an automatic record of the SVN revision number
in the banner as well has a nightly cron job to update the date.

   That is something I believe routine -- at least in GCC, that is
what we have.  To do that painlessly, you might want to create 
a simple file that contains only the branch information, the date,
and the revision number.  Then convince Autoconf to get revision
information from there (e.g. cat).  Set up a cron job on SF to daily
update the date.  Setup a commit script that automatically increment
the revision number in the file on every commit.

-- Gaby