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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Aug 17, Ladislav Hagara [ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz] wrote:
> > IMHO NO(I feel very strongly about this) I don't like to use some 
> > random thing
> > to set a version. I prefer for the VERSION=[whatever_scm_it_uses] approach
> > for non automatic(i.e. VERSION=cvs, VERSION=svn and so on).
> 
> 
> It was discussed several times.
> The VERSION=$(date +%Y%m%d) is the only way as to ensure the sources will
> be updated for normal users.  Not all our users are linux specialists,
> they only want to use their favourite application.  They use Source Mage
> because we provide CVS version of that application.

I'm not trying to reopen the conversation (unless it needs to happen), but
I thought the below was the original goal Arwed posted for VERSION, and
what I included in the doc.  Arwed if we do want something different now
please explain:

"If the spell is not set to automatically update, VERSION should be set
to a constant string (e.g. HEAD, TRUNK). If the spell is set to
automatically update VERSION should be set to $(date +%Y%m%d). This will
lead to a new cache tarball every time the spell is updated which is
intentional. If an automatic update broke something, the user can dispel
-d to a previous version."

> The strange is I am not able to read 
> http://www.sourcemage.org/spell-multi_version
> (Access denied You are not authorized to access this page).

It's not set to published since it is a draft.  I did that so it wouldn't
show up in the automated index stuff, but apparently it also means you have
to be set up as a content editor in Drupal to see it.  Ask one of the site
admins for that access if you don't have it.

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