https://forum.librecad.org/How-to-read-librecad-version-numbers-in-ubuntu-tp4548453p4548873.html
On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:16 PM, showard314 [via LibreCAD] wrote:
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:26 PM, R. van Twisk [via LibreCAD]
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> Scott,
> on that subject, I noticed that in ubuntu the SCM tag is empty,
> this should (if I did my job right) show the GIT tag
> in the form of: SCM Revision: 1.0.0rc1-119-ga41a27e
> Can that get included in the ubuntu PPA?
> Ries
Does that work if someone grabs the release tarballs instead of github
clone? The packages in the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories
don't do a github clone but instead download the .tar.gz from github.
Scott, unfortunately if a person or system downloads a tarbal I don't have away
of knowing what version this actually is when qmake is executed.
Currently the build system issues the command : git describe --tags,
and uses that as the SCM version in the about.
Actually, the automatic builds don't even do that - they grab a bzr
branch which imports the github branch. It's silly, but the only way
to automatically do it with PPAs (they don't do gits.)
That's a pitty, because on the #CAM channel I sometimes answer questions
around LibreCAD, and currently I don't have good insight in what version
they really use, my knowledge of Ubuntu is unfortunately low enough
for myself to not even know :)
Is there something we can do to change this? Could the build system use the filename?
As I noticed that github sends the describe as the filename...
I don't know what bzr is.....
Ries
~Scott