[OpenLayers-Dev] VERSION_NUMBER

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:23 PM, ext Eric Lemoine wrote:

> On Monday, April 4, 2011, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) <bartvde at osgis.nl> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> I see that in trunk VERSION_NUMBER now occurs in 2 files:
>> 
>>  * OpenLayers.js
>>  * OpenLayers/SingleFile.js
>> 
>> However their values differ.
>> 
>> Is this not gonna lead to confusion?
> 
> If I read the release procedure correctly both
> OpenLayers.VERSION_NUMBER values are manually set to "Release-x.y" in
> the SVN tag. So no confusion for releases.
> 
> In trunk we use the $Revision$ keyword, so you're right, the values in
> OpenLayers.js and SingleFile.js differ. I'm not sure I understand the
> purpose of using $Revision$ here, as the latter is the revision number
> in which the file (OpenLayers.js or SingleFile.js) changed. So, to me,
> the VERSION_NUMBER string has no valuable meaning for the trunk.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.

You're correct.

At the point where we introduced this, we changed all files (to update
the copyright dates) immediately before tagging, so the revision was
always changed on all files as part of releasing.

There was a ticket opened in some release to add changing the 
VERSION_NUMBER as part of the release process; this hasn't been done,
as far as I know, as far as I know, but I may have manually done it
as part of the release process at some points; not sure.

-- Chris

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