Hi Waldek,
there is actually a little issue with the sphinx stuff.
I can certainly write code to pick up the year from the commit date at
compile time and put it into the year for the BibEntry and also in the
copyright string that appears at the bottom of every generated html-page.
However, we certainly also want the year to appear correctly, if the
user is running 'make doc' or 'make localdoc'.
So, probably no problem, if there is a .git directory, but if a user
gets the sources from the tarball, then I do not see any reliable source
for the year inside the actual content of the tarball.
To resolve this "year problem", an option is that you include
src/doc/sphinx/source/citation.rst and
src/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
https://github.com/fricas/fricas/blob/master/src/doc/sphinx/source/citation.rst?plain=1#L15
https://github.com/fricas/fricas/blob/master/src/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py#L47
into your list of things to set appropriately before the release is done.
Honestly, I'd prefer a variable, for example PACKAGE_YEAR or
PACKAGE_RELEASE_DATE (maybe in configure.ac, which you change for the
release) that distributes to the Makefiles. Such a variable can then be
used to automate that sphinx stuff. So all version stuff just in
configure.ac.
What do you prefer?
Ralf
On 6/30/24 18:25, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
PS: In fact, there is also a missed version change in citation.rst.
@Misc{FriCAS,
key = {FriCAS},
author = {{FriCAS team}},
year = {2024},
title = {{FriCAS} 1.3.10---an advanced computer algebra system},
note = {Available at \url{http://fricas.github.io}}
}
I'll also try to set this up for the next release so that 1.3.10 becomes
|PACKAGE_VERSION| and thus will be automatically be generated correctly.
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