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Build number policy #255
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The build number was incremented as part of the build process (in buildbot, For reference, Komodo currently uses the subversion revision number, since |
I'd be one to vote for using git describe...it's what I'm using for the versioning on the Archlinux PKGBUILD. |
Agree on the |
Build numbers are now generated from git. I'm not yet certain how portable this solution is, though. Tested on Linux; not sure if this is compatible with Windows and/or OSX.
#334 -- not sure if one can pull-request on an existing issue. If that is possible, I successfully failed to do that. |
No, you can't. You could make github corss refer to the issue by mentioning it in the pull's description, like it did for the commit. I'm also wondering if this kind of mention in the commit will auto-fix this bug as soon as it's merged. |
Added build number generation [#255].
As I commented in #334:
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@freaktechnik probably a good idea, if you know a fail-safe way to do that cross-platform? I'm not too sure what's possible in all shells used to build Nightingale. But it is not really bad if we don't imho. |
I was wondering if we should keep the build number... it's not really useful in my opinion since you can check version + date already...
Buildnumber was used on Songbird and incremented at each commit (if I remember well), and we don't really do so.
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