Re: [STUMP] Use git describe in *version* when building from git

[Shawn Betts]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ben Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:23:29AM -0800, Shawn Betts wrote:
>> The reason I chose the x.y.z-git format for the version was to show
>> that stumpwm was bult from the repository and not a tarball release
>> version. Now that we have the git hash appearing in the version
>> command output It would be nice to set the autoconf version to
>> "BLEEDING-EDGE" or something. Then there's no question what version
>> you're running. For releases the version should just be x.y.z.
>
> I'm probably missing something, but how does it get to be x.y.z rather
> than x.y.z-git or BLEEDING-EDGE in the release tarballs?

configure substitutes %%PACKAGE_VERSION%% in version.lisp.in and
produces version.lisp.

-Shawn