[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1940: wingrass - nsis - script in release mode: !define SVN_REVISION "@GRASS_VERSION_SVN@" not set

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#1940: wingrass - nsis - script in release mode: !define SVN_REVISION
"@GRASS_VERSION_SVN@" not set
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 Reporter:  hellik          |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  critical        |   Milestone:  6.4.3                    
Component:  Packaging       |     Version:  6.4.3 RCs                
 Keywords:  nsis, wingrass  |    Platform:  MSWindows 7              
      Cpu:  x86-64          |  
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Comment(by hellik):

 Replying to [comment:11 hamish]:
 >
 > from the subject of this bug it seems the issue has to do with building
 an official versioned release, not with a random svn snapshot build?
 >
 > In that case the svn rev and thus svnversion are mostly irrelevant;
 ".svn/" metadata is not in the final tarball, and if a historian is
 curious what svn rev the version refers to they can always look it up in
 the tag's log.

 see
 http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/mswindows
 /GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl#L251

 {{{
         !define /math VERSION ${SVN_REVISION} + ${BINARY_REVISION}
 }}}

 ${VERSION} is used in the nsis-script/wingrass-installer to check if the
 installer is newer/older than the already installed

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