From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 5 10:19:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (unknown [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6246437B401; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:19:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12786; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:19:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13065; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:19:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15213.32787.764947.252632@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:19:15 -0600 (MDT) To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: Jonathan Chen , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <20010804123544.C16994@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <01080300314100.00395@spatula.home> <20010804094732.A47919@enterprise.spock.org> <20010804123544.C16994@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 1) Have the cvs scripts add the latest commit date/time to a version.h > > everytime a commit occurs in a branch. Display/use it accordingly. > > I suggested that a couple of years ago. I thought "newvers.sh" > should get updated by any CVS commit. Read the archives. It's not that easy, but it's just a 'Small Matter Of Programming' that so far no-one has been willing to take on. There are signficant technical hurdles (CVS, CVSup) that need to be solved before it can actually be of any use. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message