Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] ekiga.rc

[Michael Rickmann <mrickma gwdg de>]

Am Montag, den 20.04.2009, 18:12 +0100 schrieb Peter Robinson:
> >>>>>> Is there a way to move ekiga.rc from root to win32?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1) git mv ekiga.rc win32/
> >>>>> 2) make sure any file referencing ekiga.rc now searches for it in
> >>>>> win32/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Snark
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you please rename it so that the basename is distinctive, e.g.
> >>>> ekiga-rc.rc ? I ask this because eventually we can include compilation
> >>>> of the resources into the autoconf/libtool make process and then an
> >>>> ekiga.o file would be a bit dangerous I think. Additionally VALUE
> >>>> "SpecialBuild", CVS_VERSION in the resource file is a bit outdated. Now
> >>>> an EKIGA_REVISION is defined in src/revision.h . See attached patch as
> >>>> an example for how one could handle the Win32 resources.
> >>>
> >>> Note that ekiga uses git now, so src/Makefile.am info about revision.h is
> >>> obsolete...  Is it interesting to resuscitate it?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Eugen
> >>
> >> Yes, I have seen that. I am still testing. Would something like
> >> #define EKIGA_REVISION "EKIGA_3_2_0-80-g80bf6d3" be acceptable in
> >> revisioin.h? It is based on the output of git describe, the 80th
> >> revision of tag EKIGA_3_2_0 I guess.
> >
> > For my snapshots, I use only the date in the .deb file name (see
> > http://snapshots.ekiga.net/snapshots/debian/).  Users can know the version
> > (the date) with 'dpkg -l' afterwards.  Wouldn't this be sufficient for
> > windows snapshots too?  (Simpler is better :o))
> 
> I would personally prefer the git version rather than the date version
> as there could be multiple different versions of ekiga on a single day
> dependant on the amount of commits. By using the git rev you know
> exactly what the build was based upon so it makes it easier from a
> debug and recreation of the problem perpective.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
I agree, currently it is used for ptracing for linux and windows,
gui/main.cpp: PTRACE(1, "Ekiga SVN revision: " << EKIGA_REVISION);
To have it in the Windows resources too, is for right clicking on
ekiga.exe and have people find the revision under properties.
Regards
Michael