Re: [Chicken-hackers] Bumping version no. / build tag in banner

[Felix]

>> Is this necessary? library.c already has a dependency on version.scm.
> 
> However, version.scm is currently included, not linked in.  As I stated, if 
> you include the version, build tag and branch in library.scm via an include 
> (as now) you have to recompile it every time you bump any of them.  That's 
> quite slow.  I don't like this delay and I assumed it would be a showstopper. 
>  With this change bumping a version is almost instant.

Why are you so concerned about build-times? Do you build chicken a lot?

> 
>> The commit hash is only available when building from a git checkout.
>> Rebuilding everything from a tarball will have no way recover that
>> information.
> 
> The git hash is irrelevant in a tarball, because it is built from a known 
> tag, so I'm not sure why this matters.  You can't get the current git branch 
> from a tarball, either, but we still display it when available.

That's true.

> 
> Anyway, this patch would not include the git hash stuff; it's mostly to fix 
> the perpetually outdated build tags and branch tags when you are compiling 
> from a git checkout.   However, git hash is where I'm going with this in the 
> end.

Could this be made smart enough to work even if the absence of ".git"?


cheers,
felix