[dmd-internals] dmd-devel version number

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el  9 de February a las 21:17 me escribiste:
> On 2/9/2013 9:04 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >No, is definitely the other way around. That's why you have a
> >version control system. But never mind, I just want a binary with
> >full version information for development snapshots. Is there any
> >way to convince you to accept having that? Something needs to be
> >changed, a way to differentiate releases from development
> >snapshots.
> 
> One simple way is just add a .h file with the info you want in it.

I'm about to give up, but here is my last try.

I know how to implement this, there's even no need to add any .h file,
that just makes things more complex without any advantage (at least for
posix.mak), just a -DVERSION=\"-devel-`git whatever`\" and then changing
the code to something like:

version =
#include "verstr.h" // or whatever the name is
VERSION;

That git whatever command just print the current HEAD short hash.

But then, if I do this, a way to flag that this is not a development
snapshot needs to be added. This is also easy (again, at least in
posix.mak), one way should be just adding the -DVERSION= stuff only if
a Make RELEASE variable is equals to one. So, just 'make' will create
a version string like v2.062-devel-cacafea, but make RELEASE=1 will
create a aversion number with just v2.062.

I already have this in my private fork (not the RELEASE flag because
I never do releases :), I just want it upstream because is always better
to have the changes upstream and, especially, because I think this is
useful in the general case, so I want to contribute it back.

So, basically the question only for you is if changing your release
scripts or whatever you use to add this RELEASE=1 would be too much work
or if you're willing to do it and for everybody else too, if anybody is
against this for any particular reason.

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