I've shifted away from using the SVN revision number as a monotonic
version identifier (replacing it in the Windows version resource with
a count of days since an arbitrary epoch), and I've removed all uses
of SVN keyword expansion (replacing them with version information
written out by Buildscr).
While I'm at it, I've done a major rewrite of the affected code which
centralises all the computation of the assorted version numbers and
strings into Buildscr, so that they're all more or less alongside each
other rather than scattered across multiple source files.
I've also retired the MD5-based manifest file system. A long time ago,
it seemed like a good idea to arrange that binaries of PuTTY would
automatically cease to identify themselves as a particular upstream
version number if any changes were made to the source code, so that if
someone made a local tweak and distributed the result then I wouldn't
get blamed for the results. Since then I've decided the whole idea is
more trouble than it's worth, so now distribution tarballs will have
version information baked in and people can just cope with that.
[originally from svn r10262]
it's a pre-release of, and the revision number so you can tell two
pre-releases apart. I intend to use this for builds from branch-0.61
until I call it 0.62 proper.
[originally from svn r9343]
the release directory into a _subdirectory_ of the main build.out,
and delivers the link maps and sign.sh alongside it. That simplifies
both the nightly snapshot cron job (which now doesn't have to
carefully move the maps out of the release directory or go looking
in strange places for sign.sh) and my release procedure (for much
the same reasons).
[originally from svn r7258]
parts of the versioning code which might not like them.
As a result of this checkin, bob builds from modified SVN working
copies will still announce themselves as revision nnnnM in the
textual version strings, but their binary version in the Windows
VERSIONINFO will now be 0.0.0.0.
[originally from svn r7231]
base files. (The signatures aren't actually _generated_ by bob, of
course, but the redirects are harmless in their absence.)
[originally from svn r7228]
and custom svn builds should now have appropriately named Unix
source archives and installer binaries, plus .htaccess files
providing redirects to them from totally standard filenames. I
_think_ this now makes it feasible to switch the nightly builds to
using bob.
[originally from svn r7226]
a fourth class of PuTTY version tags in addition to release,
snapshot and unidentified: we now have `Custom build r1234',
indicating a build made from that SVN revision in a context other
than that of a dated snapshot. The build script generates these when
it doesn't know what else to do; `unidentified builds' will now only
occur when you run nmake from the command line.
Also, the build script now generates sensible version data in the
installer to match this. So I _think_ we should now be set to use
bob to generate installer builds of the nightly snapshots, although
of course I'll have to wait until tomorrow to test one.
[originally from svn r7211]
Simon Tatham
Jacob Nevins