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Subject: Re: EPICS R3.14.10 version number
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: "Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]>
Cc: Core-Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:51:18 -0500
Hi Ernest,

On Thursday 30 October 2008 09:12:23 Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>
> After a site deploys the official release point, then patches can be
> obtained via another scheme.
> For example, in the Known Problems area on your web site.  Should there
> also be a version string change?
> Something like,  3.14.10-p1.

Not in the official release version...

> Maybe, it's better for each site to handle 
> the version after the release point on their own since
> they will most likely make some local changes.
> That's why you guys created "EPICS_SITE_VERSION" ?

Precisely.  The combination of patches that you've applied and other local 
changes you've made is always going to be unique to your site, so if you want 
to be able to distinguish between site-specific versions that variable lets 
you do so.  You should of course document those changes somewhere as well, 
although if you keep everything in a source code repository you can at least 
do the equivalent of a 'cvs log' to find out what you changed.

HTH,

- Andrew
-- 
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds

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Re: EPICS R3.14.10 version number Andrew Johnson
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