[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup-commit] COMMIT r2330 - in box/trunk: . contrib/windows/installer

[Chris Wilson]

Hi James,

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, James O'Gorman wrote:

> subversion@boxbackup.org wrote:
> [...]
> > +## Figure out version and substitute it in
> > +box_version=`perl infrastructure/printversion.pl`
> > +AC_SUBST([box_version])
> > +
> 
> Thinking about it, I'm not sure this is entirely necessary - you can use
> $PACKAGE_VERSION from within configure.ac. We can probably get rid of
> VERSION.txt altogether to be honest.
> 
> What do you think?

If that's the one defined at the top of configure.ac then it's hopelessly 
out of date. Doing it this way means that we actually know where trunk 
builds came from, for example, and we can't forget to update the versions.

Cheers, Chris.
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