[BuildTools] Proposal: XXX_SVN_REV change from quoted string to numeric

Lou Hafer lou at cs.sfu.ca
Thu Sep 2 19:26:56 EDT 2010


Gus,

> There is also a question of just what constitutes a "version" I am saying
this 
> because the proposed windows solution to this suggested a tool that 
> increments the version number every time I initiate a new _build command_,

> completely irrespective of whether changes occurred between successive 
> compilations or not. I view that as completely unworkable.

	Timely, since I have my head in Windows for a bit. Could you
elaborate? What was the proposed
solution? Along that line, any thoughts about a good solution within Visual
Studio?

	
Lou



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