Re: Cleanup initialization of configure process (issue 549350043 by address@hidden)

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Reviewers: dak,
>
> Message:
> On 2020/01/08 16:18:25, dak wrote:
>> https://codereview.appspot.com/549350043/diff/581410043/configure.ac
>> File configure.ac (right):
>
>
> https://codereview.appspot.com/549350043/diff/581410043/configure.ac#newcode7
>> configure.ac:7: AC_INIT([LilyPond], [2.21.0], mailto:[address@hidden],
>> [lilypond], [http://lilypond.org/])
>> Hardwiring the version number in this manner is a real maintenance drag.
>> Couldn't autogen.sh create a VERSION.AC file (or something like it) 
>> containing
>> only the version number that is just included here?
>
> I agree that it's essentially duplicated, but it's not that we bump the
> version every day. To make sure there's no divergence, I added a check
> that the one provided in AC_INIT and in VERSION are the same.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to get rid of the VERSION completely, but apparently
> you can build the website without configure'ing the project. I wasn't
> sure if that is still used, so I went for this solution.

That doesn't answer my question, does it?

-- 
David Kastrup