On Sunday, 8 October 2017 19:45:00 CEST Kevin Funk wrote: > Heya, > > The KDevelop team is currently discussing a patch which adds git-describe > like information to the version string in KAboutData: > https://phabricator.kde.org/D8158 > (don't bother reading through the comments...) > > Problem: > > When KAboutData's version is set to something like "5.1.80-24-g262fb4cb9f" > and when attempting to report a bug via KDevelop -> Help -> Report Bug, > bugs.kde.org will no longer pre-select the correct version in the version > list. Even worse: The version information is lost completely if the user > does not copy it from the dialog. > > Idea: > Let's add a 'build info' attribute to KAboutData which may contain custom > data filled by a project to provide more information about a specific > build. > > Then, for instance in KDevelop's main.cpp: > ``` > KAboutData data(...); > data.setBuildInfo("Version: " KDEVELOP_FULL_VERSION_STRING); > ``` > ... with KDEVELOP_FULL_VERSION_STRING being "5.1.80-24-g262fb4cb9f"
@KCoreAddons maintainers: Do you think that makes sense? In that case I'd create a patch which adds such API to KAboutData. Regards, Kevin > And then during the bug report process, just amend the url used to direct > the user to bugs.kde.org: > https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi? > format=guided&product=kdevelop&version=5.1.80&comment=Build%20information: > %0AVersion:%205.1.80-24-g262fb4cb9f > > Would require changes in kcoreaddons (KAboutData) and kxmlgui (KBugReport) > afaics. > > Comments? There are a couple of other KDE projects (thinking of krita, kexi > -- which also use Git info) which could benefit from this. > > This is also extensible, one could add more content to the build info > attribute which would be sent over to bugs.kde.org. > > Regards, > Kevin -- Kevin Funk | kf...@kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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