[jdom-interest] [PATCH] wrong jar version

[Jason Hunter]

Excellent suggestions.  I've integrated your patch.

-jh-

Jeff Turner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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".
> 
> thanks,
> 
> --Jeff
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