Re: Modeline oddness in 0.97

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>]

On Sep 27, 1999, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Mike Fletcher <mfletcher@iss.net> writes:
>> Maybe the day of the year (i.e. (time-to-day-in-year (current-time))), 
>> or the week of the year if they're going to be less frequent?  Or the
>> more verbose but less ambiguous v0.97.YYYYMMDD?

> That would make the continuum-version kinda large:

> (gnus-continuum-version "Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97.1")
> => 5.07009701

> (gnus-continuum-version "Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97.19990927")
> => 5.07009719990927

> But, like, why not?

It's been common practice (at least in some projects I work on) to add
letters to version strings to indicate unreleased version, or even
``odd'' letters for CVS versions and ``even'' letters for ``released''
test versions/snapshots.

Another interesting option, that the libtool team has adopted, is to
append to the regular version number the ChangeLog revision number and
its CVS timestamp.  One advantage of this scheme is that it will
unambiguously identify branches and arbitrary check-outs, and you
won't have to bother about making commits at regular intervals just to
change the version number.  There's a script (`mkstamp') in the
libtool CVS tree and recent distributions that will extract the
version number from the ChangeLog.  libtool runs this script off
`configure'

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