Re: Proposing a tiny change
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.
Maybe it's me that isn't understanding. If I checkout the source tree
using "-r r21-5-latest-beta" today I get 21-5-3 (unless it changed last
night). Am I guarenteed that there will be *no* changes applied until
you announce a 21-5-4? That I will *never* need to do cvs update until
there is a new beta?
If the last two statements above are *not* true, then I'm asking for a
finer grained indication that I could feedback so y'all know precisely
what source I'm working with when I report a problem. In the past I
thought I had seen "cvs update -r r21-5-latest-beta" report some updates.
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