Le 25/11/2014 19:39, Kornel Benko a écrit :
The way it is now in cmake is to recompile every time the date changes.
a.) Create temporary file lyx_date.tmp
b.) check if different to lyx_date.h
b1.) overwrite if yes.
Currently we display both date and time in lyx -version. The time has
high probability of changing everytime.
Note that this was done via explicit calls to __DATE__ and __TIME__
preprocessor macros, so your lyx-date.h stuff does not help at all in
this regards. I think you are mixing the release date and the build date.
Please no. In case of recompiling version.cpp each time (even if not needed),
there will be also unneeded linking too.
I do not see another way to provide a build time that is actually
correct. Shall we get rid of the reference to a build time?
Another option would be to get rid of this information altogether. I
would think that version and commit hash a really enough. I never had
any need to look up the build date/time.
I will next propose something for the release date: instead of the "not
released" yet text, I propose to show the git commit if we have one.
Would that make sense? I would think that the git commit is not needed
for a real build, since in this case the release is tagged, and normal
users do not need to know about this git business.
+1
I will do that when I have some time.
JMarc
