From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: David Gibson Subject: Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:05:50 +1000." <20070726030550.GA1149@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070726030550.GA1149@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:04:30 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger Message-Id: Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:12:00AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I'd like to make an official DTC Version 1.0.0 release soon! > > It would certainly be great to have a release, since dtc is becoming > necessary for more and more kernel builds. > > Only thing I'm not really happy with in the current release is the > versioning stuff. For starters, it always reports my builds as > -dirty, even when they're not. I think it won't do that once there is a tag available. > It also seems a bit hideously > complicated for what it does. I'd prefer to see something simpler > using git-describe to derive the version strings directly from the git > tags themselves. That is essentially what is there now. We just need a tag! > Obviously we need some sort of cacheing mechanism to > make the versioning work for tarball releases without the git history, > but I think we can handle that with a suitable "make dist" target. Sure. > I'll see if I can make a patch or two in the next few days. I would like to keep the current version mechanism as it is really quite similar to what is in the Kernel now. Thanks, jdl