On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:44:58PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > 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).
I understand your point. My point is: * Nobody except the developers should run fvwm-themes against CVS. And I guess it isn't hard to chop off the suffix from the version number in cvs. * Nobody should build a tarball or rpm from CVS except for testing if the tarball builds. * I don't want to see "I have x.y.z" ever again when the user has the cvs sources. See the list above. These are all places where a user might look to find out the release number and should all print "cvs" or whatever as part of the version string. I mean, in a way that the user concludes that it's part of the version name. I'd rather make some effort to filter out the suffix for tools that can't handle it, but I'm open to a different solution that achieve the same. A human readable suffix is fine, but I guess "2.5.4 (cvs)" would be reported as "2.5.4". Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- 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]
