[vlc-devel] Re: vlc: svn commit r12215 (massiot)

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Remi Denis-Courmont wrote:

>On Jeu 18 août 2005 8:45, Clément Stenac a écrit :
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>
>Also, there's hardly any point in having the SVN revision in binaries.
>Besides, it is conceptually broken given there is no SVN revision number
>in tarballs, and that's what binaries are supposed to be built from.
>
>All other versions infos (version numbers, compile host, flags, blabla)
>are determined at configure time and need not cause a rebuild at every
>make. That is, in my opinion, the right place to do it, and the place
>where we've been doing it until now.
>  
>
Having the svn revision number in the build is very convenient for me. 
It allows for a better control and determination of run-time problems 
with the intermediate release I do almost every week to my customer. 
Yes, customer. Somebody is paying me to tune VLC for use in their 
product. They report problems to me. Currently in 0.8.1-jpsaman-thedj 
branch I use datestamps in the configure.ac, which are a bit akward. It 
clusters up the archive with useless checkins. I am sure people noticed 
that ;-)

That is however not the only situation where having the exact version 
number (and local modification flag) is usefull. The VideoLAN project 
also has some very active testers at the moment. The y regularly find 
problems (bug, regression) and the only thing the can say now is that it 
was in the svn-trunk of last night. Which is too coarse grained to 
actually quickly determine which revision introduced it. Having the 
revision number (and local modification flag) in VLC logging output 
gives us exactly the information we need to find the exact status of the 
archive which gave the problem. If the tester also knows in which 
revision it was working, then we can focus on the intermediate version. 
According to me this information is needed, because it gives more 
control and information about the status of an intermediate build.

Kind greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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