From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MMXrJ-00077J-Cb for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:37 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMXrI-00075V-C9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:36 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMXrD-00070Y-L0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:36 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53512 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMXrD-00070V-HQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:31 -0400 Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.70]:48220) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMXrD-0000D0-4V for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:31 -0400 Received: from [24.148.247.152] (helo=[192.168.0.199]) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MMXrC-0004Dl-8W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4A4D6409.3000905@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:51:05 -0400 From: BandiPat Organization: Magic Page Products User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4A4D1670.3040709@t-online.de> <1246567148.20370.5.camel@mj> In-Reply-To: <1246567148.20370.5.camel@mj> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: c85a64c14a050764b95206241ab561599ef193a6bfc3dd48e370976622d2988efefc469c96f96b7293fe5b2b5bb10998350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.148.247.152 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a snapshot version string to GRUB title X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:46:36 -0000 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. > =========== 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