Re: setting $VERSION at runtime

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Bruce Korb wrote:

> What is your goal?  If your desire is to have a version that always "bumps"
> without having to think about it, you might want to consider thinking again. 
> :)
> As you have noticed, by using ChangeLog you have to manually do something
> else.  What it boils down to is that at some point you do have to do 
> something
> manually.  Make it something simple and easy, then it will be obvious and
> maintainable to boot.  :)  Good luck - Bruce

For GraphicsMagick we do use the always "bumps" approach in order to 
make regular dated snapshots easy.  Then at release time, a simple 
edit to a version.sh file allows setting a specific release version.

The main drawback is that there is a re-configure and build as soon as 
the ChangeLog file has been updated.

Bob
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