Re: How to refer to version name and date in package documentation?

SY> Let me preface this by saying that I don't think I totally understand SY> what you are trying to do here. I want to be able to refer to the equivalent of the CVS keywords $Date and $Name in the packages sources. In emacs lisp I want to initialize build-version and build-version-date from thme. In texi sources I want them specify the curent release and release date. SY> |--==> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: APA> Hello Steve, All! APA> In my build package I want to refer to latest version number and date APA> of the package. SY> [...] APA> How do I maintain synchronisity between version number and version APA> date between documentation, Makefile, and sources? SY> Not sure, but maybe this will help: Not really. SY> --- SY> (defun pkg-get-info (package information &optional remote) SY> "Get INFORMATION about PACKAGE. SY> Argument PACKAGE is the name of an XEmacs package (a symbol). It SY> must be a valid package, ie, a member of either `pkg-std-packages' or SY> `pkg-mule-packages'. SY> Argument INFORMATION is a symbol that can be any one of: SY> standards-version Package system version (not used). SY> version Version of the XEmacs package. SY> author-version The upstream version of the package. SY> date The date the package was last modified. SY> build-date The date the package was last built. SY> maintainer The maintainer of the package. SY> distribution Will always be \"xemacs\" (not used). SY> priority \"low\", \"medium\", or \"high\" (not used). SY> category Either \"standard\" or \"mule\". SY> dump Is the package dumped (not used). SY> description A description of the package. SY> filename The filename of the binary tarball of the package. SY> md5sum The md5sum of filename. SY> size The size in bytes of filename. SY> provides A list of symbols that this package provides. SY> requires A list of packages that this package requires. SY> type Can be either \"regular\" or \"single-file\". SY> If optional argument REMOTE is non-nil use a package list from a SY> remote site. For this to work `package-get-remote' must be non-nil. SY> If this function is called interactively it will display INFORMATION SY> in the minibuffer." SY> (interactive "SPackage: \nSInfo: ") SY> (let ((remote-site package-get-remote)) SY> (unless remote SY> (setq package-get-remote nil)) SY> (package-get-require-base t) SY> (let ((all-pkgs package-get-base) SY> info) SY> (if (package-get-key package :version) SY> (progn SY> (loop until (equal package (caar all-pkgs)) SY> do (setq all-pkgs (cdr all-pkgs))) SY> (setq info (plist-get (cadar all-pkgs) information)) SY> (if (interactive-p) SY> (message "%s" info))) SY> (setq package-get-remote remote-site) SY> (error (format "%s is not a valid package" package)))) SY> (setq package-get-remote remote-site))) APA> What's worse: APA> Package Release Engineer controls version number in Makefile SY> This shouldn't be a problem at all. Don't forget that as a package SY> maintainer, Adrian, you only need to worry about $AUTHOR_VERSION, not SY> $VERSION. OK, I don't need to control $VERSION. $AUTHOR_VERSION will do fine. APA> Package build process controls date of package release. SY> What's wrong with this? When I commit package sources I cannot put in the correct release date since it's unknown at this point. APA> Developer/Maintainer needs to keep version number and date up-to-date APA> in elisp and texi sources. SY> Just the version number. 'date' and 'build-date' (see doc string in SY> above function) are both generated. I want to refer to release date in texi sources. Is it a requirement for packages to build without cvs access to cvs.xemacs.org? If I could do this ... all:: update-for-release $(ELCS) $(MULE_ELCS) auto-autoloads.elc custom-load.elc $(INFO_FILES) update-for-release: cvs update -r $(AUTHOR_VERSION) -kv ... then I could use $Name in emacs lisp and texi sources. Is this verboten? APA> This can't work. SY> Sure it can. APA> What can we do? SY> Well, possibly (hopefully) I've given you the tools to answer that. SY> -- SY> |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| SY> | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | SY> | It's a way of life. | SY> |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---| -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/