On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:32 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Worse, the logic the set the current revision for svn updates is >> wrong. > No, the logic was correct. As particle said on #parrot yesterday, > ".parrot_current_rev should always reflect the last time you ran 'perl > Configure.pl' successfully." But it not doed that. It only updated the file if it does not existed, and it were only deleted on make realclean. > Since there has been a lot of confusion about this, we/I could probably > have done a better job of documenting all this. But I do want to stress > that the design of lib/Parrot/Revision.pm was the result of considerable > thought, discussion and negotiation on this list. I haven't had a > chance to fully assess the changes that have been made in the last two > days, but I would be reluctant to see us return to the maintenance > difficulties we formerly had. The only changes I do are ensuring that the value is updated at the start of Configure.pl and a change in the way svn info is parsed. -- Salu2
