[armedbear-devel] Start up message suggestion

[Mark Evenson]

On 1/30/11 6:24 PM, Mark Evenson wrote:
> On 1/26/11 11:58 PM, Blake McBride wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've got a suggestion regarding the startup message on development
>> versions of abcl.  Rather that just saying "-dev" why don't we say "-dev
>> (XXX)"  where XXX is the subversion revision number?  This would make it
>> much more clear about what you are running, and I'm pretty sure
>> subversion can automatically provide and update this (I am doing it
>> elsewhere).
>

[…]

After reviewing the (damn quick, thanks!) feedback, I've committed 
implementation of my proposal [in r13197][1]. Now, In the Ant-based 
build, if the executable 'svnversion' can be found on the PATH and the 
topmost '.svn' subdirectory exists, the output of 'svnversion' is 
appended to the value returned by LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION (which is 
what appears in the ABCL banner).

[1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/13197

The only suboptimal part of my implementation is that we produce a lot 
of weird looking "empty" targets ('abcl.version.src.0', 
'abcl.version.src.1', etc.) as is necessary to get around Ant's lack of 
conditional properties on all tasks.  If there is an more aesthetically 
pleasant way to do this with core Ant (i.e. without adding code or jars 
to Ant), I'd be happy to learn about it…

To finish this issue:

1)  test under Windows (and in general), possibly adapting to the 
presence of other methods of retrieving SVN information (like what 
TortoiseSVN provides).

2)  implement the same algorithm in the Lisp-based build

3)  (weakly necessary) provide an extension mechanism to customize the 
information


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