R: R: R: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #160: WinGRASS: v.report>incompatability issue

Marco Pasetti marco.pasetti at alice.it
Thu May 15 16:26:00 EDT 2008


Hamish,

Thanks. I'm working on the new installer, that should automatically
recognize if and what version of GRASS is installed, and, if newer, asks the
user if he wants to upgrade to the newer version.

Marco 

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Hamish [mailto:hamish_b at yahoo.com] 
Inviato: giovedì 15 maggio 2008 11.33
A: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org; Michael Barton; marco.pasetti at alice.it
Oggetto: Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #160: WinGRASS:
v.report>incompatability issue

> A the moment, the GRASS release is deteminated by the SVN revision 
> number; it represents binaries built upon different source code 
> distributions.
> I think that I should introduce a new code number, that represents 
> releases with differences in binaries, libraries, install script 
> patches... that is all but not differences in GRASS source code: I 
> could call it BNR (Binary Release Code) and start it with 0 every time 
> the SVN rev number has changed in the binary release.
>  
> What do you think about?

FWIW this is how debian expresses it:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version

not that they should dictate what we do, but fyi. (their "BNR" resets to
"-1" upon new code releases; "-0" is sometimes used for a release candidate
or preparatory packages)

the version before the hyphen is the source code release's domain, after is
the packager's domain.


Hamish



      



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