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Re: branch snapshot version tag
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: branch snapshot version tag
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:41:46 -0400
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3BCE6245.9080508@cygnus.com>
> Hmm,
>
> The current branch snapshot process is setting the version tag (version.in) to YYYYMMDD. This is a little unfortunate since snapshots taken from the trunk are also setting version.in to YYYYMMDD. Might be a good idea if I change it.
>
> My first choice for the snapshot version.in would be 5.0.91-YYYYMMDD but due to a ``technical problem'' with the snapshot scripts that won't work.
>
> That leads to my second and third choices.
>
> 5.0.91.YYYYMMDD
> or 5.0.91_YYYYMMDD
>
> Unless someone comes up with a compelling argument for why one of these is better than the other, I'll toss a coin and then tweek the snapshot process to generate the second one.
Just so people are clear on this. 5.1 branch snapshot tarball will be
named:
gdb+dejagnu-5.0.90_20011020.tar.bz
and the startup message when that tar ball is built will be:
$ gdb
GNU gdb 5.0.90_20011020
enjoy,
Andrew