Forwarding Jerry's followup to the ticket.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:14 AM Subject: Re: .parrot_current_rev To: Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file .parrot_current_rev is missing in the Release, and also the > revision is nowhere > mentioned in any Release Note, not the ChangeLog and not in news. > This is annoying, because you don't know if a particular bugfix is > included or not. > > Worse, the logic the set the current revision for svn updates is > wrong. (NotMuch brought this up yesterday on #parrot) > .parrot_current_rev is not updated on a svn up, it is just the cache > for $Parrot::Revision::current, > but the cache is not ensured to be cleared when doing a Configure.pl. > Only a make realclean will > get you a correct revision in bugreports. > > Configure should enforce a fresh cache update if there's a .svn subdir > available, otherwise > you'll get false bugreports. > -- .parrot_current_rev should be (re)generated every time Configure.pl is successfully run. if this is not the current behavior, it's broken. ~jerry -- Will "Coke" Coleda
