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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

I'm also against version to be set to current date. We had that
disagreement with David when discussing httpd-dev spell. I think setting
version to a constant (e.g. I prefer HEAD as a name of "latest" revision
in CVS and Subversion) and using FORCE_DOWNLOAD=on is the best
combination of choice and convenience. It has just one disadvantage: no
way to go to previous version by using "dispel -d". This is minor though
because the source taken from repository is more likely to not build
than to build and not work.
VERSION=$(date ...) is a clever hack and has the right to exist, but
only as *non-default* spell configuration option, IMO.

Sergey.

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:12 +0200, Andrew "ruskie" Levstik wrote:
> > >   VERSION=$(date +%Y%m%d) should be set both if auto-update is
> > >   wanted or not.
> > 
> > This could only work if FORCE_DOWNLOAD is off for the non-auto update ones
> > of course, but even then wouldn't this cause the non-auto update ones to
> > think they have a new version each day they come up in a cast, then just
> > recast the exact sources they already have?
> > 
> 
> 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).
> 
> Who came up with the idea for using date for both...
> 
> And yeah for FORCE_DOWNLOAD it should be clearly documented if it's used 
> this
> or that way.