Re: [PATCH] add a snapshot version string to GRUB title

[BandiPat <magicpage91@earthlink.net>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:20 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>> Many "GNU GRUB  version 1.96" used in production are likely builds from 
>> more recent SVN snapshots. It would (IMO) be useful to have some info 
>> about the actual installed version.
> 
> I can tell from my experience with other projects that such suggestions
> appear when there is not enough leadership in the project, and nobody
> cares about producing stable releases.
> 
> It would be better to produce named prereleases or release candidates if
> we are not comfortable about releasing 1.97 right now.
> 
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I do think the world is ready for another stable release number, like 
1.97 or 2.0, but in the mean time, I've been doing this in my build script.

echo "-- Starting Autogen.sh... --"
sed -e "s/,\[1\.96\],/,[$softversion],/" -i configure.ac
./autogen.sh

Where basically the $softversion is your svn number I label the build 
as.  The above replaces the 1.96 found in the title bar with "svn2383" 
or whatever the svn number is at the time, so users will know what they 
are using.

But again, why not put a freeze on adding things, just fix the bugs so 
you can release a stable version number for those squeamish about using svn?

Regards,
Pat