Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming?

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:30:01 +1000
David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> wrote:

> > Except didn't you say you were going to work with Stephen to get DTC
> > into the kernel source itself?  Keeping things similar to Kbuild might
> > help in that effort.
> 
> Actually, after discussions with Stephen and Paulus, we decided not to
> take this route.  In any case having Kbuild like versioning wouldn't
> actually help us any in integrating into a full Kbuild system.

Can you elaborate why you decided not to?  I'm just curious.

> > > Have a look at the patch I posted.  I haven't sufficiently tested it
> > > yet, but it should be able to generated version info for a tarball too
> > > (provided the .git-manifest file is included, and I'm intending that
> > > will be build by a make dist target).  It will give both the
> > > git-derived based version, and a file content derived hash so we can
> > > robustly tell different builds apart, all with less code than the
> > > current system.
> > 
> > That may be.  But I don't see the current approach being too much of a
> > problem either.  Especially given that it's already there and it
> > works.  Oh, and you sent out your patch saying it wasn't ready for
> > merge and with no sign off.  Small but important issues to fix I'd
> > think.
> 
> Yeah, it lacks a make dist target, and needs a bit more work to
> support that properly.  Never mind, I'll revisit this post the 1.0
> release.

Ok.

josh