[Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] new Cog VMs available

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Mon Apr 8 22:51:57 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

>
>
> On 08.04.2013, at 10:31, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I thought the "sequence number" (for lack of a better term), e.g.,
> > 2714, was what made the names  unique.  If not, is it still needed
> > too?
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Am 07.04.2013 um 01:30 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com
> >:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Woo hoo!  Thanks Eliot!
> >>>>
> >>>> Quick question, I see you're using a new naming convention, what does
> >>>> 13.13 mean?
> >>>>
> >>>> It means the 13th week of 2013.  So all the archives are named
> archive-WEEK.YEAR.SVNID.ext.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hope that's not too inconvenient.  But they need unique names.  I
> stupidly overwrite a set of old files doing some reorganization a few weeks
> back and that wouldn't have happened with unique names...
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I think this is pretty useful, however, what about
> >>>
> >>>        archive-YEAR.WEEK.ID.ext
> >>>
> >>> ? That way, the vms are ordered successively :)
> >>> (as the current one is 13.13.… changing shouldn't be a problem ;))
> >>
> >>
> >> Oops.  It is indeed YEAR.WEEK.ID.  I misspoke.  Here's the command
> that delivers the tag:
> >>
> >> REV=`grep 'SvnRawRevisionString.*Rev:'
> platforms/Cross/vm/sqSCCSVersion.h \
> >>        | sed 's/^.*Rev: \([0-9][0-9]*\) $";/\1/'`
> >> TAG=`date +%g.%U.`$REV
>
> Doesn't make sense to me. Builds should be reproducible, so why encode the
> build date in the file name? If you really need it, then the SVN version
> should take precedence over the build date. So "id-date" would be better,
> grouping same sources but different build dates together.
>

It's not to do with the build.  It's just a name to package it in.
--
Eliot
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