[gambit-list] More precise versioning of Gambit?

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sun Sep 24 14:25:33 EDT 2017


Definitely!  It could be added to the -v report to precisely identify the beast…

Marc



> On Sep 24, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Right now when I run gsi, it tells me I'm using gambit 4.8.8. But
> that's not quite right. If I use git describe --tags to ask git what
> I'm using it tells me v4.8.8-402-g300db59e, so some well-identified
> commit with 402 patchs on top of Gambit 4.8.8.
> 
> I recently modified Gerbil to it remembers the exact version as
> identified by git describe --tags in its binaries. Basically, a file
> is generated during the build if git is available; when preparing a
> tarball for use without git, the file must be present. For release
> purposes, and so as to reuse github's builtin tarball capabilities, a
> release script creates and commits the magic version file
> before to tag the commit with the release version. Then to go back
> into development mode, the same script can "unrelease" the code
> and re-delete the file, adding it back to .gitignore, after the
> release was made.
> 
> Are you interested in my porting the same mechanism to Gambit?
> 
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