On 04 Sep 2002 16:01:51 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > Actually, it should *really* be everywhere where a user might see it: > > - configure summary > - man page > - fvwm --version > - fvwm-config > - tarball name > - ...
Actually, it should not be anywhere beside some human readable texts and only because you want to give a user some indication. If we add the _cvs suffix, we may just add _final, _stable, _cvsstable, _cvs_20020904. But is the version string the right place for this? >From the technical point of view, all final versions are tagged. If we don't tag 2.5.4_cvs and it will just eventually become 2.5.4, there is no need of such version, it only confises package managers. You want to use a version as an indicator, this may work, and this is not unacceptable, but there are reasons why I prefer not to do this. I prefer, instead, to print a human readable suffix " (cvs)" or " (cvs 2002-09-04)" in some places, and leave $VERSION to be x.y.z like external programs that do arithmetics with this string expect (for example, rpm and fvwm-themes). Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
