KDE Applications Versioning

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 23 de juny de 2015, a les 09:30:10, Christoph Cullmann va 
escriure:
> > El Dimarts, 9 de juny de 2015, a les 07:52:49, Christoph Cullmann va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > dear release team, would it make sense to have some script updated
> > > KDE Application Release Version in CMake to auto-version the bundled
> > > applications (if wanted by the application maintainer)?
> > 
> > How would you do that? Scripts doing magic are nice, but can you describe
> > how the magic would work?
> 
> I would do the same like for frameworks.
> 
> All projects that are included in kde applications x.xx would have a CMake
> variable like the frameworks
> 
> set(KF5_VERSION "5.12.0") # handled by release scripts
> 
> but (KDE Applications or whatever):
> 
> set(KA5_VERSION "15.04") # handled by release scripts
> 
> and after each release that gets auto-incremented to the next one.
> 
> Applications that want to use that, then can just define their own version
> based on this var. Applications that don't want to use that, don't need to
> do anything.

This looks doable, i think it makes sense to have three different variables 
major, minor, patch, so you can decide which ones to use.

Would you volunteer to work on such a script?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Greetings
> Christoph