[Xotcl] Sense or non-sense of version-numbers.

[Uwe Zdun]

Hi Adrian,

you're right. The orginal idea was to provide one XOTcl version that is only 
XOTcl (the xotcl-1.0.1) on its own and own "full" version with the actiweb 
packages etc. especially for students and testing purposes; so someone not 
using actiweb does not have to install all the persistence, xml, web object, 
etc. stuff just ot use XOTcl; however, since then (to my knowledge) nobody 
uses the smaller xotcl-only version. We're thinking about removing the 
version number again. I guess, we try to move to the TEA2 directory naming 
scheme .... 

For you immediate problem: in the makefiles there are variables "PATCHLEVEL"
(this is the release level ... "" for 1.0, ".1" for 1.0.1) and FULLVERSION 
defined, which contain the necessary information. Within XOTcl you can get 
the patchlevel with "set xotcl:patchlevel":

xotclsh
% set xotcl::patchlevel
.1

--uwe




On Wednesday 08 January 2003 16:37, Adrian Wallaschek wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I do like version numbers, but there is a "too much" in everything.
>
> What is the deeper benefit of having the version number for xotcl
> recursively even inside the source-tree?
>
> What actually happens for me is that now I seem to have problems building
> the code because in 1.0.1
> When running xotcl-1.0.1/xotclsh I do find ..../xotcl-1.0 in the auto_path
> instead of the required/expected .../xotcl-1.0.1.
>
> I haven't yet found out where it goes wrong but it looks like the $VERSION
> doesn't use the revision counter in some Makefile.
>
> The question is: why all this fuzz?
>
> Didn't anybody else see this occurring, did I mess up anything?
>
>
> Regards,
>          Adrian Wallaschek
>
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