Hi Sebb, sebb wrote:
> On 3 April 2013 06:56, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 04/03/2013 02:21 AM, sebb wrote: >> >>> On 2 April 2013 16:25, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 04/02/2013 05:06 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >>>> >>>> Mladen Turk wrote: >>>>> >>>>> And BTW, build number can use multiple sources and its primary usage >>>>>> is with continuous integration. Our release version is build number >>>>>> in this case. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> We configured the build to take it from the current svn number to >>>>> reflect >>>>> the unique state of the repository. An entry like >>>>> >>>>> =========== %< ============= >>>>> Implementation-Build: UNKNOWN_BRANCH@r??????; 2013-03-28 13:53:43+0100 >>>>> =========== %< ============= >>>>> >>>>> will give the immediate impression, that something did go wrong with >>>>> the build. I'd rather drop the entry completely. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I mean ASF is all about releasing sources. That's our primary >>>>> product. >>>> >>>> >>> So building from the tag should be equivalent to building from the >>> source archive. >>> >>> >> Not necessary. Source distribution might have some pre-generated code. >> Many projects work like that and some even require manual handcraft from >> release manager. >> >> > It should still be possible to start from a workspace checkout of the tag, > rather than an unpack of the source archive. > The two should be identical except for the SVN files (and perhaps FOAF etc > that only belong in SVN). This is the point: They cannot be identical, since the manifest contains also stuff like build time, user name, JDK version (snipped): ============== %< ================ $ catmf commons-configuration-1.8.jar Created-By: Apache Maven Bundle Plugin Built-By: oheger Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_30 Implementation-Build: tags/CONFIGURATION_1_8RC1@r1236874; 2012-01-27 2 1:39:19+0100 Bnd-LastModified: 1327696771177 ============== %< ================ Either we have such information and ensure that it is proper for a released jar or we drop it and ensure that someone else can reproduce the *same* artifacts (hashes are equal). [snip] - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
