KDE Applications Versioning

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 5 de juliol de 2015, a les 14:11:30, Christoph Cullmann va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> here you go:
> 
> http://commits.kde.org/kate/28eb1504df1762e7e96cc5dfe4a983360dc560f8

Nice start even if it's in perl ;)

> If you have boilerplate like:
> 
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kate.git&a=blobdiff&h=77c35ae71216a6f9e04693f0db7
> c63b7f793d287&hp=073d6d9cae3c1f51941ed44517978ca16c04da41&hb=f99377b27ac9c9b
> a5cd92c6e91036ecf9403ca99&f=CMakeLists.txt
> 
> aka
> 
> # KDE Application Version, managed by release script
> set (KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MAJOR "15")
> set (KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MINOR "04")
> set (KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MICRO "0")
> set (KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION
> "${KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MAJOR}.${KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MINOR}.${KDE_
> APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MICRO}")
> 
> That script will patch this to the given version.
> 
> Like
> 
> ./update_applications_version.pl CMakeLists.txt 15 04 3
> 
> or update an error if it didn't match all parts (with the template
> boilerplate code).

That's bad, not all of our apps are going to have that in the cmake file, can 
you make it simply skip the file (if it wasn't perl i could try it, but every 
time i try something in perl it involves 2 hours of google searching :D)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> 
> > 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