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Re: Version numbers


On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > 2001-02-15  Gerald Pfeifer  <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
> >
> > 	* version.c: Bump to "3.0 20010215 (prerelease)".
> 
> I realize that also
>   gcc/f/version.c
>   libf2c/libF77/Version.c
>   libf2c/libI77/Version.c
>   libf2c/libU77/Version.c
> need to updated similarily.

As well as the mainline updates to 3.1, of course.

> Toon, how about simplifying that? At least gcc/f/version.c could reuse
> the string from gcc/version.c, and the three Version.c's in libf2c could
> share another one?

Perhaps we should have a *single* file in CVS containing all the version
numbers, and create all other files needed at build / configure time?

That is,

* CVS date.
* GCC version (3.0, etc.).
* g77 version (0.5.26, etc.).
* CHILL version (1.5.2, etc.).
* gcov version (1.5, etc.).

and any others.  (Note what the GNU coding standards say about --version
output for programs with their own version numbers that are also part of a
larger distribution with its own version number.)  Though, do we really
need separate version numbers for gcov or CHILL (which AFAIK never had
widespread distribution outside of GCC)?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk


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