[RPL/2] self compiling ?

[Felix Becker]

Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2007, 22:31 +0100 schrieb BERTRAND Joël:
> DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre wrote:
> > BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> >> Adrian Blake wrote:
> >>> The two intrinsics are not working as you describe:
> >>>
> >>> [adrian at adios rpl]$ rpl -is
> >>> +++RPL/2 version 4.0.0.prerelease.2 (Wednesday 11/14/07, 21:52:10 EST)
> >>> +++Copyright (C) 1989 to 2006, 2007 BERTRAND Joël
> >> 	I see you don't use the last snapshot.
> > 
> > Please, do not rely on release dates; change the version number each
> > time. I had problems because of this recently, because it happens you
> > publish updates with the same name of the version you tend to upgrade.
> > This leads to files having the same name, and different content. Please,
> > stop overwriting files. Then, version names will be consistent, and
> > revealant.
> 
> 	I upload snapshot, not release or prerelease because I have a lot of 
> work to do in some dark sides of RPL/2 before next milestone. Last 
> prerelease was 4.0.0.prerelease.1, not prerelease.2 that is _only_ a 
> buildable snapshot of my current CVS tree. The date you can see is only 
> compilation date.

I think, if you don't want to include the timestamp of the smapshot
somehow in the version number (like 4.0.0.prerelease.2-20071125blah), it
is a very good idea to put the date of the last snapshot on the website.
This would make it much easiert to see if sth. has been updated.