[Webware-devel] Automating version numbers?

[Stuart Donaldson]

In preparing the 0.8 release, rolling the version numbers in the release was one of the painful parts, because of all the places that they occur. I created a script to do this, but it was fairly specific. It would be nice to have a more general solution.

One suggestion is to tag the version number and release date. In the HTML files we could tag them with a HTML comments delimiting them. Then a script could go through and perform the requisite substitutions.

Something like: <!-- version --> 0.8 <!-- /version -->
and <!-- releaseDate --> February 9, 2003 <!-- /version -->


This could be automagically fixed up by a script prior to doing a release.

Another issue is the RelNotes-0.*.html files. Should we start collecting the Release Notes in a new file now? Or wait until prior to the next release and scan the CVS logs? If we create the file now, we don't know what the next version will be. Could be 0.9, 0.8.1 or something else. So creating a named version for it now doesn't make a lot of sense.
We could roll the version in CVS to 0.8.X and then create a RelNotes-0.8.X.html files, renaming them once we get ready for another release. The advantage to this would be that it allows us to continue with the Release notes files, and the install.py script that builds the documentation indexes would also continue to reference the new files. If this is a good idea, maybe we should just roll it to 0.X.Y so that we can always use 0.X.Y between releases, and then rename the version to the next number.


-Stuart-



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