On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:04:30AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:

So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled:

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:12:00AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:

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Folks,

I'd like to make an official DTC Version 1.0.0 release soon!

It would certainly be great to have a release, since dtc is becoming
necessary for more and more kernel builds.

Only thing I'm not really happy with in the current release is the
versioning stuff.  For starters, it always reports my builds as
-dirty, even when they're not.

I think it won't do that once there is a tag available.

Your 1.0.0-rc1 tag is there, still showing as dirty.

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It also seems a bit hideously
complicated for what it does.  I'd prefer to see something simpler
using git-describe to derive the version strings directly from the git
tags themselves.

That is essentially what is there now.  We just need a tag!

Um... no.  The base version comes from the numbers specified in the
Makefile, not from the git tag.

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 Obviously we need some sort of cacheing mechanism to
make the versioning work for tarball releases without the git history,
but I think we can handle that with a suitable "make dist" target.

Sure.

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I'll see if I can make a patch or two in the next few days.

I would like to keep the current version mechanism as it
is really quite similar to what is in the Kernel now.

First, I don't think it really is - except in superficial aspect of
how the version number is partitioned - the kernel has no auto version
generating thing of this type.  Second, I don't see that being similar
to the kernel's approach has any particular usefulness here, anyway.

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