Re: [Classpath] Re: classpath-config script.

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

Back from vacation and replying to some old mail...

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:55, Brian Jones wrote:
> "C. Scott Ananian" <address@hidden> writes:
> > On 10 Sep 2002, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > >
> > > Brian, is it OK to set the VERSION in configure.in to something like
> > > "0.05-pre-cvs" or should this always be a dotted number?
> > 
> > Other alternatives include "0.05a" (libtool-esque) "0.05alpha"
> > and the ever-popular debian-style "0.04+cvs" (which could be
> > expanded to "0.04+cvs.20020910" for distributions from cvs,
> > if pre-release distributions are ever called for).  Also
> > "0.04.99" or "0.04.99.1" if pure-numerics are called for.
> > 
> > I don't really have any preference at all; I'd just like some way
> > for my runtime to determine which version of the classpath API it
> > should be using.
>
> Is this version something we should be inserting into the System
> properties then?  For dynamic adjustment at runtime?

Good point. I have set the version to 0.04+cvs which is now also set in
gnu.classpath.Configuration.CLASSPATH_VERSION. This String is then set
as the System property "gnu.classpath.version".

Cheers,

Mark
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> Should I include quotations after my reply?