Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 38340: /trunk/ /trunk/: make-version

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 01:19:54 +0200
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 06:33:34PM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=38340

>>> User: cmaynard

>>>  Don't report svn version if not building from svn.  Change prompted by http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/5376/wireshark-161-title-shows-svn-rev-unknown-from-unknown.
>>>   +3 -2      make-version.pl    Modified

>> Does this really make sense? How do you differentiate between the "real"
>> 1.6.1 release and a post 1.6.1 source code archive?
>> I think this particular "fix" is wrong.
>
> The only way I see to get around that, though, is to have each official  
> release (e.g., 1.6.1) have a commit to disable the SVN version noise and  
> then another commit to re-enable it after the release is made.

Why not simply include the version.conf file in the tarball, shouldn't that
fix the problem?

> What about:
>
> 1) put Chris' code back in

I didn't revert it because I may be wrong ;-) so I wanted some discussion
first.

Ciao
      Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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