Re: A little suggestion

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Il 05/01/2010 11.40, Lennart Borgman ha scritto:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Angelo Graziosi
> <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>  wrote:
>> In Emacs, Help | About Emacs, there is written:
>>
>> "GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.18.3)
>>   of 2010-01-05 on..."
>>
>> Why, in the development stage, not adding the revision number? i.e.:
>>
>> "GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 rev. 99259..."
>>
>> In GCC, for example, this happens.
>
>
> I wonder if it is possible? Is it well defined?
>
> Perhaps the beginning and ending time of the checkout could be used
> instead? But I wonder if they are available either.

Shouldn't writing 'rev. 99259' in some .bzr files be enough? For 
example, when building, if it finds 'rev. 99259', it generates:

"GNU Emacs 23.1.91.1 rev. 99259..."

else if it finds 'release', it gives:

"GNU Emacs 23.2 release..."

I am sure Emacs guys have better ideas. :-)


Thanks,
Angelo.