On 3/12/2018 10:40 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote: > On 03/12/2018 10:23 AM, Jon Evans wrote: >> I have seen multiple users who run nightlies think they have RC2 because >> they read "5.0.0-rc2" and stop reading after that :-) >> Maybe we should switch the tag back to "5.0-dev" between RC releases? >> I think all of us developers are going to look up the git hash anyway to >> know exactly when a given version was built, so the "rc2-dev" information >> isn't super necessary for me at least. >> >> By the way, it's probably annoying to change this because I imagine there >> are scripts that depend on it, but I wish the git hash didn't have a "g" in >> front of it, since if I just double-click that portion of the version string >> I have to manually remove the "g" before pasting it elsewhere to look up the >> hash. > > I agree that the -rc2 could be confusing. As to the "g" prefix, that is not > present in the Fedora nightlies. They report more like: > > 5.0.0-rc2-dev-unknown-r12328-8fcbb64a
My bad. I forgot that -unknown is append to the end of the version string when building from a source archive or no git. Every think appended after that is done by the build script. > > where the r12328 is a sequential number representing the number of commits to > date and the 8fcbb64a is the short SHA of the head commit. > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
