Beau E. Cox wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Congrats on your 6.2.11 release!
>
> Did the development (svn) version really jump to 6.28.0?
Yes. Major pugs releases are numbered by adding the next digit of 2*pi,
rather than the more conventional x.y+1 :-)
> I am running some scripts to automate a refresh of parrot and
> pugs weekly so I can stay in tune with the current effort.
> To identify my svn downloads by version and revision I:
>
> 1) slurp ChangeLog and pull version from /(\d+.\d+\.\d+)/s.
> 2) get revision from the svn output:
> revision=$(tail -n1 svn.log|perl -e ';$_=<>;$r=/rev.*?(\d+)/i ? $1 :
> "";print $r') \
clever, but ugh.
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Are version and revision available in the source tree in a
> format easier to use?
yes:
VERSION can be parsed from META.yml with any handy YAML parser
e.g. `perl -MYAML -e 'print YAML::LoadFile("META.yml")->{version}'`
REVISION can be gotten with `svnversion .`
> 2) If not, would the group consider maintaining a VERSION or
> VERSION and REVISION files in the root of the tree that
> could simply be cat'ed?
META.yml
