On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Thomas Martitz wrote:

>> just been specified when building the binaries. e.g. "make VERSION=3.0".

> That's just bad IMO.

I disagree. It's the simplest and most elegant way in my view.

> Someone checks out the tag to recompile the release bootloader for whatever
> reason and doesn't get the same as installing it from the download server.
> The source the binary is built from should have the version also IMO, that's
> clearer than implying knowledge of some make parameters.

Then I suggest you commit a README to the branch that says "I built the
release on this branch with make VERSION=[num]" or possibly make a
"release.sh" script that just runs that command line.

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