[jdom-interest] [PATCH] wrong jar version

[Jeff Turner]

Buggerit.. I forgot all the Specification-Version,
Implementation-Version, etc manifest entries ;P Sorry.. the attached
patch fixes those too (assuming you applied the previous patch).

There's two new Ant properties:

version.spec  -> 'Specification-Version' entry == the last known
'stable' API point to which the implementation conforms, which I've
guessed is 0.7

version.impl  -> 'Implementation-Version' entry == current API version
('1.0 beta8-dev')


thanks,

--Jeff


On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:29:03PM -0800, Jason Hunter wrote:
> 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