Re: [orca-list] Current Orca Version?

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 03:59:17PM AEDT, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Thanks for the alternative version segments. Frankly, I think I prefer
> the form 3.99.1.... but it would be nice of the git tags represented
> the 3.15.1pre but I guess there isn't a way to do that from git at
> this time. Anyway, I'll save this message for future use in case this
> other format becomes more desirable. I just never found the more
> abstract numbering approach always seemed less relevant to me. It's
> pretty cool how we can automate the git pull versioning in our
> PKGBUILD's now.
> Hey, at least I'm getting the latest pull and that is all fine. That's
> what mainly matters here.

I recently changed Speech Dispatcher to using a script that constructs a version string from the use of git 
describe. IMO I think it would be useful if GNOME, or at least Orca, did something similar. It would have the 
following advantages, and maybe more I haven't thought of.

* Maintainers like joanie would not have to set a pre version string after every upload.
* People could pull and build snapshots of git trees without ever having to worry about the version string, 
whether it was greater, less than the previous version, etc.

Only downside is that the tag format would have to change. Currently the tags are along the lines of 
ORCA_3_14_0, which is frankly a pain if one is wanting to look at the log of commits between tags, or since a 
tag, so changing the tag format is probably a good thing. :)

For those who are unaware, git describe allows you to construct a version string based on the last tag, and 
the number of commits since that tag.

Luke