Re: [Axiom-developer] Automated version update

2007-06-26 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Martin Rubey wrote: | Dear Gaby, | | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > It is obvious to me that automated version updated can run as follows: | > | > * daily bump: anywhere, preferably a machine that is almost always | > up -- we can use the c

Re: [Axiom-developer] Automated version update

2007-06-26 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Gaby, Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is obvious to me that automated version updated can run as follows: > > * daily bump: anywhere, preferably a machine that is almost always > up -- we can use the cron job facility at SF. Yes, of course. But suppose that

[Axiom-developer] Automated version update

2007-06-26 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Martin -- It is obvious to me that automated version updated can run as follows: * daily bump: anywhere, preferably a machine that is almost always up -- we can use the cron job facility at SF. * release with version number: this should be done when the release is mad

Re: [Axiom-developer] Automated version update

2007-06-26 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: | Hi Gaby, Cliff, Martin, | | isn't that a bit of overkill if the script updates every file? The script I sent does not update every file. It modifies only a handful of GCC files: exclusively those that contain version information. In case of Axiom, it

Re: [Axiom-developer] Automated version update

2007-06-26 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi Gaby, Cliff, Martin, isn't that a bit of overkill if the script updates every file? SVN is different from CVS, there are global revision numbers. So it is simply enough if there is one file that contains some specific version information. (I guess the same is true for any newer SCM like git

[Axiom-developer] Automated version update

2007-06-26 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Cliff -- You don't need to have separate programs for sepaerate branches. Please find attached the script $GCC/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn that we use for GCC. It is reltively simple. It was originally written for our CVS repository and quickly adapted to SVN -- without modif