On Thursday 09 October 2008 02:38:03 pm Przemyslaw Czerpak wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Teo Fonrouge wrote: > > Hi Teo, > > > Do you know why the header of some files is different if you download the > > file by following the links provided by sourceforge.net ? > > i.e. if you download the file from the following link (a tar gz file): > > http://harbour-project.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/harbour-project/trunk/h > >arbour.tar.gz?view=tar It will contain the full harbour source tree of > > files, however, if you check the heading of the "ChangeLog" file against > > the one in the local svn copy, you'll see: > > The heading of the file in the local copy: > > ------------------------------- > > /* > > * $Id: ChangeLog 9588 2008-10-09 12:29:02Z tfonrouge $ > > */ > > ------------------------------- > > The heading of the file contained in the tarball: > > ------------------------------- > > /* > > * $Id$ > > */ > > ------------------------------- > > Yes, it's standard behavior. > > > This difference causes that it fails the creation of the hbverbld.h from > > hbpp. And for this reason, currently it's not possible to create packages > > from a tarball downloaded directly from the SVN at sourceforge.net > > May be we need to find an alternative method to make hbpp to obtain the > > info needed to create the hbverbld.h file. > > I introduce automatic revision number storing to eliminate the > problem we had checking which version user used reporting the > problem and to verify the final binaries. Personally I'm finding > it very usable and I can easy confirm the version used by user. > F.e. see my recent message to Phil. Believe me that it helps and > safe time. Unfortunately keyword fields are not resolved when you > download tarball directly from SVN.
Hello Przemek, Agree, definitively we must keep this feature. > We can change hbpp to ignore missing keywords and always generate > hbverbld.h file. But in such case we will have binaries without > revision number. > We can also make trick and add hbverbld.h to SVN. In such case it > will be periodically updated if developer makes clean build before > commit though it will always have revision number one less then the > user commit so it may introduce more confusions then help. Agree. > I'd prefer <unknown> as revision number instead of wrong number. > If you find it useful then I can change hbpp to ignore unexpanded > keywords and replace them by sth like "<unknown>". Please do that, at least, it won't stop users that wish build Harbour from the tarball obtained directly from sourceforge. best regards, Teo _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
