r19080 - gnucash/trunk - Bug #616696 - Development version warning string should not include hardcode version.

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Geert Janssens <gjanssens at code.gnucash.org> writes:
>> > -GNUCASH_LATEST_STABLE_VERSION="2.2.9"
>> > +GNUCASH_LATEST_STABLE_SERIES=$GNUCASH_MAJOR_VERSION.$(($GNUCASH_MINOR_VE
>> >RSION-($GNUCASH_MINOR_VERSION%2)))
>> 
>> This logic will fail when we go from 2.x -> 3.0
>> 
>> I'd rather this be "hard coded" and we just have a list of places where
>> we need to "fix" the release number when we make a new stable release.
>> 
>> I think we just need a release engineering checklist somewhere (the wiki)?
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
> I'm not sure it will fail.
>
> The unstable series leading up to 3.0 will be 2.9. While developing 2.9, the 
> previous stable series will be 2.8, which will be calculated correctly.
> The next unstable series will be 3.1, and the stable series preceding that 
> will correctly be calculated as 3.0.

Not necessarily.  Last time we went from 1.8 -> 1.99 -> 2.0

> Geert

-derek

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