Re: version tags in 2.9 cvs

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Releases are tagged via GUB; the darcs tags contain the ChangeLog
> > version number/date, which you can use to check out CVS.
>
> Huh, I need the darcs repo to check out a cvs version?  How would I
> check-out 2.9.10 a year from now?  What is the reason for not setting
> the tag?

Because whether I can do a release is determined entirely on the GUB 
side of things. By tagging in darcs I can be sure that every release I'm 
shipping as a binary is the same as the one that I'm shipping as source.

The tags I've added manually in the past weren't exact: there were often 
little differences because building the binary turned up new problems.

I can't tag CVS from GUB as it uses an anonymous checkout of CVS.

If it's a problem we should add a timestamp file or similar to each 
binary build, so we can trace back exactly when a release was done.

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