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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you. I see you also added the 5.0-dev tag for this.

2018-02-13 15:04 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Just a quick notice to all of the package devs that may impact kicad
> version strings used for packaging.  I have changed the way the version
> strings are generated in my development repo and I am planning on
> pushing this on Friday.  By default git will always be used to generate
> the version string using `git describe --dirty` as long as git is
> available and the source folder contains a valid .git folder.
> Otherwise, the version string will be the contents of the
> KiCadVersion.cmake file.  The version string in KiCadVersion.cmake will
> be kept current with the git tags and branches so that when someone
> builds without git, we will at least know the last tagged version they
> are using rather than the current "no-vcs-found".  You will still be
> able to append strings to the version string using the
> KICAD_VERSION_EXTRA configuration option.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
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