SQL Version

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> The versions table is defined with an int in the second field, which is why the git hash isn't writing.  There's likely an error message about that in Geert's gnucash.trace.
>
> So we can use a serial number in gnc-version.h or construct an int out of the release version in configure (perhaps with a "micro" component added in on trunk for when we need to change things between releases). I'm inclined towards the latter, because it's mostly automatic. Do you really feel strongly about having a serial number instead?

I think generating something from the version number would be fine, if
we can figure out some way to handle it (sort of like a DNS SOA serial
number).  Something like GnuCash version x.y.z -> XXYYZZVV

The hard question is:  how do we encode the 'VV' version such that it
gets reset to 0 whenever we reset the gnucash version in configure.ac?

Any system we use has risks and problems.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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