[jdom-commits] CVS update: jdom/package/META-INF

[cvs at jools.org]

Date:	Monday January 7, 2002 @ 4:32
Author:	cvs

Update of /home/cvspublic/jdom/package/META-INF
In directory jools.org:/tmp/cvs-serv4364/package/META-INF

Modified Files:
	info.xml 
Log Message:
Integrating patch from Jeff Turner <jeff at socialchange.net.au> so that
the JDOM versioning will make more sense.  Below is his email.

-jh-

Currently, any 'jdom.jar' built from CVS will claim that it is beta 7,
when one interrogates it via 'java -jar'. This effectively renders the
whole version reporting system useless, as a jdom.jar from 6 months ago
look exactly like one produced yesterday.

This may be a symptom of a deeper misunderstanding. Is "beta 7" a point
in time, or an ongoing period of time (about 6 months)? Are we "in the
7th beta", or has it been and gone?

I'll assume a beta is a "point in time", as this is what users believe,
and the website indicates ("JDOM Beta 7 was released!").

In which case, some terminology is needed for where JDOM is, now.

The attached patch adopts the <next version>-dev approach. Once applied,
'java -jar jdom.jar' will report:

JDOM version 1.0beta8-dev, built January 6 2002
Copyright 2000-2001, Jason Hunter and Brett McLaughlin
...

Does that sound reasonable?

If so, the implication is that when beta 8 arrives, the distro builder
must update the version flag to "beta 8", do the build, then immediately
change the flag to "beta 9-dev".

===================================================================
File: info.xml         	Status: Up-to-date

   Working revision:	1.3	Mon Jan  7 09:32:15 2002
   Repository revision:	1.3	/home/cvspublic/jdom/package/META-INF/info.xml,v

   Existing Tags:
	jdom_prefilter           	(revision: 1.2)
	jdom_1_0_b7              	(revision: 1.2)