Stuart Donaldson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > 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.
Good idea. Aren't there also release numbers that show up in Python source, too? At the very least those could be tagged with a comment like ##version## so that they could be grep'ed easily. > > 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. I think it's better to update the release notes immediately when a change is checked in, rather than waiting to scan the CVS logs. Anything to reduce the effort involved in cutting a new release is a good thing. > > 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. I like using 0.X.Y. - Geoff ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Webware-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-devel
