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Re: RFA: gold version number
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:57:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFA: gold version number
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> On 25 Mar 2016, at 06:07, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been neglecting gold's version number, which has been stuck at
>> 1.11 for ages. I don't really have significant changes anymore that
>> would trigger an obvious version number bump, but a
>> consistently-incremented version number would still be useful for
>> tracking purposes. I suppose I could just remove it and show only the
>> binutils version number, but I think it's probably better to keep a
>> version number of its own.
>>
>> But what strategy should I use for incrementing it? I've thought about
>> bumping it just before each binutils release branch is cut, or perhaps
>> just after, but I'm not sure how to remind myself to do that at the
>> right moment.
>>
>> How should the version number distinguish between a release branch
>> build and a trunk build? Are there any hooks built in to git or
>> automake that would allow commit ids or datestamps to be included
>> automatically in the version string?
>>
>> Any advice?
>
> I don't have any advice about automatic updates. There must be some
> sort of binutils release checklist.
Doable.
But it would be simpler if gold were using bfd/version.m4
Tristan.