Re: revision number

[michael]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:35:54PM +1000, Jim wrote:

> Is it possible to have a software revision number based on CVS revision 
> / tag? If yes, could you please give an sample?

If you are looking to establish a project-wide revision number via
CVS, the answer is "no."  CVS only handles file-level revision
management.  

You have to have some other mechanism for determining the project
version and then "tag" all your project files with the ouput of that
mechanism. As far as I can see, this makes project versioning
arbitrary.  In fact, when you consider that Java went from Java 2 (aka
Java 1.3, 1.4) to Java 5 (aka 1.5), you get a sense of just how
arbitrary that scheme can be.

Thanks.

mp

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