Re: svn

[John Helm]

Point taken!

"Benign" is a relative concept...  I meant it only in the sense that the 
compiles and linking would work.

I would never advocate that displaying an incorrect version is a good 
thing. I just don't have that problem yet... If I don't trust the build, 
then the version doesn't matter.

Sorry, I didn't mean to be flippant.

On 3/21/21 7:42 PM, Peter Teeson wrote:
> When APL starts it displays the Welcome page which lists the purported svn.
>
> If it displays an incorrect one then the natural assumption is that the git 
> clone did not download the latest svn.
> That’s what I thought when I did the test to verify your Quad Plot syntax error.
>
> Doesn’t seem benign to me.
>
> > On Mar 21, 2021, at 6:14 PM, John Helm <jhelm@usa.net> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, Peter. That's true and benign. ./configure calls ./src/buildtag, which 
> > attempts to run svn commands to get the version number and build a version 
> > string for apl to display on start-up. Since svn is not there, buildtag punts 
> > and uses an the tag that was obtained last time svn was present on a build 
> > machine. This shouldn't affect the build, just what version apl thinks it is. 
> > BTW, I installed svn for one of my High Sierra attempts; this message went 
> > away, but none of the other issues did. /John
> >
> > On 3/21/21 4:05 PM, Peter Teeson wrote:
> > > is not a svn checkout: