Re: [PATCH 4/4] scripts/coccinelle: require coccinelle >= 1.0.4 on device_node_continue.cocci

Julia Lawall
2016-06-15T08:43:40Z

How about the following, since Coccinelle knows what its version is?
This could of course be implemented in python as well.

julia

diff --git a/docs/Coccilib.3cocci b/docs/Coccilib.3cocci
index 0e4fbb8..ca5b061 100644
--- a/docs/Coccilib.3cocci
+++ b/docs/Coccilib.3cocci
@@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ is the empty list if spatch is not currently working on any file (eg,
in an initialize or finalize rule).
.sp

+.I val cocci_version
+:
+.B unit -> string
+.sp
+Returns the a string indicating the current version. Note that if
+Coccinelle has been modified since a release, the version number will be
+postfixed with "-dirty".
+.sp
+
.I val print_main
:
.B ?color:string -> string -> pos list -> unit
diff --git a/ocaml/coccilib.ml b/ocaml/coccilib.ml
index f60c6b2..2f352d8 100644
--- a/ocaml/coccilib.ml
+++ b/ocaml/coccilib.ml
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ let dir () = !Flag.dir

let files () = !Flag.currentfiles

+let cocci_version () = Config.version
+
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