KDE Applications Versioning

[Christoph Cullmann]

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)?

Greetings
Christoph

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Christoph Cullmann <cullmann at absint.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for frameworks, it is all very nice and automatic, the version in the
> > CMakeLists.txt get auto-updated on each KF 5.x release.
> >
> > It seems to me, for the "applications" collection, something similar might
> > make sense.
> >
> > E.g. I missed to ever update the Kate version since 5.0 and other
> > applications like Dolphin and Konsole seem to have similar problems.
> >
> > Would it make sense to have some "we auto-define some version CMake var" to
> > KDE Application release number?
> > For e.g. bug reports that would make all things easier.
> > Or do I miss some magic already in place (e.g. the opensuse packages seems
> > to have patched release numbers, at least for Konsole).
> >
> > Greetings
> > Christoph
> >
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> I'd welcome such feature. I always forget to update my applications' version.
> 
> Maybe it would be best to ask the release-team at kde.org?
> 
> Aleix
> 

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