Tagging

[Sean Kelly]

Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:52:32 -0500, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Leandro Lucarella Wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of improving the VCS usage, how about tagging?
> >
> > An easy intermediate step would be to include the SVN revision numbers  
> > of Phobos ad Druntime when a release is packaged.  In fact, the  
> > makefiles could probably dump this information somewhere and have it  
> > built into the libraries, thanks to the mixin file feature.  Maybe I'll  
> > add a version string to the Runtime object for this (at least for  
> > Druntime).  In Phobos, I guess this could go in std.compiler, though  
> > there has to be a better place for it.
> 
> How is this easier than tagging?  Tagging is almost a no-op.

It's easier because it could be built into the Druntime/Phobos makefiles and not rely on a release script or manual effort to actually happen.