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-"W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu> writes:
-
-> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:54:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
-> > "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu> writes:
-> >
-> > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:36:26PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
-> > > > Please, no. Timestamps aren't version strings, that's conflating
-> > > > two pieces of information with very different meanings.
-> > > > Correlating the two is the job of a [NEWS file].
->
-> > If you want a monotonically-increasing indicator of which revision
-> > we're up to, that's immediately available with the revision number
-> > from VCS on the main branch. That also has the advantage of
-> > producing consecutive numbers for each revision, by definition.
->
-> But not during branch-switches, while my method skips large regions,
-> but probably increases during any reasonable branch-switch.
-
-I've read this several times now, and I don't see what it's saying.
-
-The assumption I'm making is that there is a single canonical “main
-branch”, from which releases will be made. The version number set in
-that branch is the one which determines the version of Bugs Everywhere
-as a whole.
-
-The revision number is only useful in the context of the branch, so it
-only matters when comparing versions within a branch. When you switch
-between branches, if you're interested in the revision number you'll
-still need to know which branch you're talking about.
-
-Switching between branches doesn't change the canonical version string.
-
-> For example, when I upgraded to rich root to pull Ben's patch, I'm not
-> sure if Chris upgraded the trunk and merged my branch, or just ditched
-> the trunk and cloned my branch. Using actual bzr revision numbers
-> would make switching branches that either wrong (in the case of rev-id
-> decreases) or confusing (in the case of a single non-consecutive
-> increase).
-
-This, then, is an argument for not having the revision number in the
-version string at all. The version then becomes a more traditional
-“major.minor.patch” tuple, and is only ever updated when some release
-manager of the canonical branch decides it's correct to do so.
-
-If we use the ‘bzr version-info --format=python > foo_version.py’
-command in some build routine, the branch's revision number will be
-available directly within Python by importing that module. That would
-allow it to be output in some UI, if that's what you're interested in
-seeing.
-
---
- \ “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands |
- `\ it.” —Albert Einstein |
-_o__) |
-Ben Finney
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-Alt-id: <87d481ht1s.fsf@benfinney.id.au>
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-Author: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>
-
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-Content-type: text/plain
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-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:32:31 +1000
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-In-reply-to: cdf15bdd-d3fe-4251-9d0b-f1b687e9a26c
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