Re: gEDA-dev: Making a windows binary available

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2-at-NOSPAMcam_dot_ac_dot_uk>]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 22:53 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 21:05 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote:

[snip]

> > >   1.5.0.20080706~pcjc2.cairo_experiment.release1
> > 
> > That might be okay.  You can achieve a custom branding/version of gEDA/gaf
> > by going into libgeda/include/defines.h and modifying (line 46):
> > 
> > #define PREPEND_VERSION_STRING ""
> >
> > Please define a string that includes at least: "pcjc2". 
> 
> I don't think it is particularly nice to prepend something to the
> version string. (Append would be nicer), but I guess since distro's
> requiring an incremental sorting of version numbers will never get this,
> it doesn't really matter.
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer 1.5.0.20080706~pcjc2-cairo... or something.
> 
> I'll try to dig up what I did for a CUED customised release. I think I
> edited the code to support appending a string.

What I did for the CUED release was to sit a string -CUED1 on the end of
the "DOTTED_VERSION" string, e.g.

1.4.0-CUED1.20070127

(This was just for sub-packages we modified - most used 1.4.0 as is.)

See:
http://repo.or.cz/w/geda-gaf/pcjc2.git?a=commitdiff;h=4d1418dd66c95e67f5e41b5876b3215f8451ca81



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Peter Clifton

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