Ticket #2906 (assigned)
Windows installer versions not quite right sometimes
Reported by: | Martyn Gigg | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | Backlog |
Component: | Framework | Keywords: | |
Cc: | taylorrj@… | Blocked By: | |
Blocking: | Tester: |
Description
The version info is retrieved from Mantid which has the version number written by CMake. Unfortunately, for example, if only a change to the Third_Party directory is made then the resulting installer will have the same revision number as the previous build.
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I don't know how we can deal with this - since people building on Linux aren't required to have anything apart from Code/Mantid checked out, the cmake build mustn't require anything more. We could use the CMake variable that takes the latest revision number of the repository as a whole, but that would make the revision number change if, e.g., something in Documents or test data changes and I think also means building off the system tag gives the wrong number.
If we move away from subversion then the whole version numbering scheme has to change anyway....