[jdom-interest] [PATCH] wrong jar version

[Jason Hunter]

Yet another great idea.  I've integrated this patch too.

-jh-

"Bradley S. Huffman" wrote:
> 
> If you want to carry it a step further and change @version in all the
> java files to the RCS id's $Revision$, $Date$, I made a patch this
> morning.
> 
> It's at ftp://a.cs.okstate.edu/pub/hip/jdom-version.patch if you want it.
> 
> Brad
> 
> Jason Hunter writes:
> 
> > 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
> > >
> > >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >    versioning.patchName: versioning.patch
> > >                    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
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