Re: Proposing a tiny change
Adrian Aichner wrote:
David> Maybe it's me that isn't understanding. If I
checkout the
David> source tree using "-r r21-5-latest-beta" today I get 21-5-3
David> (unless it changed last night). Am I guarenteed that there
David> will be *no* changes applied until you announce a 21-5-4?
No.
David> That I will *never* need to do cvs update until there is a
David> new beta?
Depends on what you want to do. If a bug fix was commited that you
wanted to verify, then you'll have to update (or apply the
corresponding patch sent to xemacs-patches).
You determine when and why you have to update :-)
David> If the last two statements above are *not* true, then I'm
David> asking for a finer grained indication that I could feedback
David> so y'all know precisely what source I'm working with when I
David> report a problem. In the past I thought I had seen "cvs
Report the cvs update (or checkout) command line you used and the time
and time zone you ran it. That determines what you'll get.
version.sh can't possible have that information.
Precisely what I'm trying to pin down. Now, why "can't possibly?"
version.sh looks like a very simple shell script - if you added a shell
variable for the date and set it from `date` whenever a bugfix is
applied, what component would even care?
OK, It need not be in version.sh, I'm just begging that it be somewhere
in the tree where I can attach one simple file to a question/report and
y'all will know *precisely* what my source-tree looked like when I built.
Hope this helps,
Adrian
Sigh!
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