Re: [PATCH] add a snapshot version string to GRUB title

2009-07-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 21:51 -0400, BandiPat wrote: > But again, why not put a freeze on adding things, just fix the bugs so > you can release a stable version number for those squeamish about using svn? Fine with me. I think GRUB is in a pretty good state now for a release. Perhaps I would sti

Re: [PATCH] add a snapshot version string to GRUB title

2009-07-02 Thread BandiPat
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:20 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: Many "GNU GRUB version 1.96" used in production are likely builds from more recent SVN snapshots. It would (IMO) be useful to have some info about the actual installed version. I can tell from my experience with o

Re: [PATCH] add a snapshot version string to GRUB title

2009-07-02 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:20 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >> Many "GNU GRUB  version 1.96" used in production are likely builds from >> more recent SVN snapshots. It would (IMO) be useful to have some info >> about the actual installed version

Re: [PATCH] add a snapshot version string to GRUB title

2009-07-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:20 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > Many "GNU GRUB version 1.96" used in production are likely builds from > more recent SVN snapshots. It would (IMO) be useful to have some info > about the actual installed version. I can tell from my experience with other projects tha

[PATCH] add a snapshot version string to GRUB title

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Franke
Many "GNU GRUB version 1.96" used in production are likely builds from more recent SVN snapshots. It would (IMO) be useful to have some info about the actual installed version. This patch adds a script to generate some version info from ChangeLog and (if available) from SVN. The version syn