So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:12:00AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I'd like to make an official DTC Version 1.0.0 release soon! > > It would certainly be great to have a release, since dtc is becoming > necessary for more and more kernel builds. > > Only thing I'm not really happy with in the current release is the > versioning stuff. For starters, it always reports my builds as > -dirty, even when they're not.
I think it won't do that once there is a tag available. > It also seems a bit hideously > complicated for what it does. I'd prefer to see something simpler > using git-describe to derive the version strings directly from the git > tags themselves. That is essentially what is there now. We just need a tag! > Obviously we need some sort of cacheing mechanism to > make the versioning work for tarball releases without the git history, > but I think we can handle that with a suitable "make dist" target. Sure. > I'll see if I can make a patch or two in the next few days. I would like to keep the current version mechanism as it is really quite similar to what is in the Kernel now. Thanks, jdl _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
