>>>> "David" == David A Cobb
<superbiskit(a)home.com> writes:
David> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>
>>>> "David" == David
A Cobb <superbiskit(a)home.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
David> Could y'all add to the procedures for striking a
David> "latest-beta" baseline something that would add
David> xemacs-patch-date="2001-11-12T13:14Z" (or something
David> similar) to file 'version.sh'?
> I don't understand what you want. If you check out sources
with an
> explicit tag and use them verbatim, the version numbers identify
the
> source completely. If you have local mods, then the version is
> inaccurate. Nothing that the process of releasing a beta can doing
> anything about.
David> It should be pretty simple automated scripting.
> Depends on what semantics you want to implement. Please be more
> specific.
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.
Hope this helps,
Adrian
David> update -r r21-5-latest-beta" report some updates.
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