Re: [wsjt-devel] Request: Expose WSJT-X version & build numbers in UDP Status message

2016-12-03 Thread Black Michael
Should be able to auto extract the revision and stick it an include file so it can be part of any source archive.The source archives will HAVE to produce this otherwise apps like JTAlert will not know what version they're talking to.I did that before with CVS instead of using the macros for just

Re: [wsjt-devel] Request: Expose WSJT-X version & build numbers in UDP Status message

2016-12-03 Thread Bill Somerville
On 03/12/2016 22:56, Laurie, VK3AMA wrote: > I understand, especially about Git commit strings, eg. from one of my > repositories... "d79c7aa89d8b643ddc43a8f5dbed9b0f4dae22e7". > > What is needed is some way to uniquely identify the version/build > being used. An auto-incrementing integer would p

Re: [wsjt-devel] Request: Expose WSJT-X version & build numbers in UDP Status message

2016-12-03 Thread Laurie, VK3AMA
On 3/12/2016 4:52 PM, Black Michael wrote: Well...each UDP version# would match whatever "change" is introduced that would/could/should affect external apps. The only problem with the rev# is that may well get reset at some point in the future. And the build version isn't any more likely to chan