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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/12/2018 10:23 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
> I have seen multiple users who run nightlies think they have RC2 because
> they read "5.0.0-rc2" and stop reading after that :-)
> Maybe we should switch the tag back to "5.0-dev" between RC releases?
> I think all of us developers are going to look up the git hash anyway to
> know exactly when a given version was built, so the "rc2-dev"
> information isn't super necessary for me at least.

I don't have any issues changing the git tag and KiCadVersion.cmake to
something more descriptive.  I'm not sure if you will be able find
anything that wont confuse someone but I'm open to suggestion.

> 
> By the way, it's probably annoying to change this because I imagine
> there are scripts that depend on it, but I wish the git hash didn't have
> a "g" in front of it, since if I just double-click that portion of the
> version string I have to manually remove the "g" before pasting it
> elsewhere to look up the hash.

You will have to take this up with the git project.  I wasn't thrilled
with the leading g either but using `git describe --dirty` does work
well and simplified the the code in CreateGitVersionHeader.cmake so I
will be reluctant to change it.

> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     The version string should look like 5.0.0-rc2-dev-176-g53c9143b6 or
>     5.0.0-rc2-dev.  The latter only happens if KiCad is built from a source
>     archive or git isn't available to generate the full version sting.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 3/12/2018 10:02 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
>     > Hello
>     >
>     > It seems at least some packages of current nightlies report themselves
>     > as version 5.0.0-rc2. (The arch package seems to be one of them.)
>     Is it
>     > on purpose that every nightly between tagging rc1 and tagging rc2 is
>     > reported as rc2? (I assumed only the one commit tagged would be called
>     > 5.0.0-rcx)
>     >
>     >
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