[X2Go-Dev] Bug#610: Bug#610: Add versioning information to nxcomp

[Nito Martinez]

Not a problem.

Thanks for the feedback.

:-)

Nito
On 09/15/14 12:02, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Control: notfound -1 3.5.0-27
> Control: found -1 3.5.0.27
>
> Hi Nito,
>
> On  Mo 15 Sep 2014 00:28:51 CEST, Nito Martinez wrote:
>
>> Package: nx-libs
>> Version: 3.5.0-27
>>
>> It would be desirable to add some versions to be able to get the 
>> version of the
>> NXComp library.
>> These should be defined in NX.h, to be used from other clients, and
>>
>> Attached is a patch that defines the following functions:
>>
>> extern const char* NXVersion();
>> extern int NXMajorVersion();
>> extern int NXMinorVersion();
>> extern int NXPatchVersion();
>>
>> In the patch assigned the VERSION has been set to 3.5.28, just to 
>> highlight that
>> it would be good to change the VERSION of nxcomp whenever a patch is 
>> applied
>> to the code.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nito
>
> Thanks for sending in that patch.
>
> However, the next upstream release of NX redistributed is planned to 
> be 3.5.0.28.
>
> The idea starting the NX version with 3.5.0 was to reflect what 
> "upstream" version we obtained from NoMachine (they use three digits, 
> NX redistributed uses _four_ digits in the version string). The fourth 
> part of the version quadruple is the NX/X2Go/QVD redistributed patch 
> level, so to say.
>
> If that will not cause any technical issues, can you rewrite that 
> patch so it handles four digit version strings (major, minor, micro,  
> X2Go/QVD-patchlevel).
>
> Please also note that an upstream version like 3.5.0-28 will cause 
> convention issues with most Linux distributions. In Debian, for 
> example, the part left of the "-" denotes the upstream version, the 
> part right of the "-" denotes the package revision inside Debian. So 
> we should avoid using a dash in the NX-libs upstream version.
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
>
>
>

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