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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