ppa daily build package shows Version: no-vcs-found-undefined

[Eldar Khayrullin]

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Application: kicad
Version: no-vcs-found-undefined, release build
Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
           libcurl/7.50.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.33 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
- Build Info -
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.61.0
Curl: 7.50.1
KiCad - Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 with C++ ABI 1010
        Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
                  USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
                  BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
                  KICAD_USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER=OFF
                  KICAD_USE_OCE=ON

[Franck78 (fbourdonnec)]

ah ah, don't bother reporting bugs about version numbering, the head (wayne/charras) is proud to have invented the single product on earth with cumbersome behavior.

Here is what it does :

the makefile tries to guess a revision number from the git tree (and before that baazar). When it cannot find one, it puts "novcs_found".

you have something like $version="Kicad_novcs_found"

To solve this (already idiot) behavior, the team added a non clearly documented (not where you expect to find it, eg README.FIRST), a makefile option.

-DKICAD_BUILD_VERSION="what you want"

The list of wrong choices :

assume everyone have permanently access to a working free rapid reliable internet connection to compile kicad 'in development'

assume a regular user is interested in compiling kicad.

force a distribution package maker to choose a version number for the build.

assume a Kicad developer will report a bug instead of fixing it at first.....and this 'indication' is a great improvement. Just false. How many dev's reports vs normal user's report ?

assume a regular user want the most recent source instead of the last known good public released.

The rest of the world (not kicad) :

A downloaded source tarball is made available under a specific name. Postfix "Postfix 3.1 stable release".
When making the package, no cumbersome question is asked for selecting a version. By default the package knows 'who it is'. No exception.

The version string will be identical for all distribution (ubuntu, opensuse, debian,gentoo,...) or home made compilation :"POSTFIX-3.1".

If the package's maker needs to tweak the version string, most packages have at disposal a makefile option DEXTRA_VERSION="frktest"

resulting in a version string "POSTFIX-3.1-frktest"

There is absolutely no reason for Kicad not using this universal scheme.

If you (jp/w) want to add a rev suffix, you can do it automatically.

But having "kicad-novcs-found" or other funny name is just due to an idiot implementation, sorry.

Franck

[Franck78 (fbourdonnec)]

Can you believe it ?

https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=7e3c0258aa3a972a5667021a07dd0cc39a9aeb62

Another fix for the broken system used to guess a 'version' for the built package and it is still

ending with

+ set( KICAD_BUILD_VERSION "unknown" )
+ set( KICAD_FULL_VERSION "unknown" )

Incredible ! Two files to end up with that ! "unknown". An officially published tarball (like the many hundreds existing) and this unique app have no clue what version it is. I'm "unknown"

Really ???????????????????

And the worse ? Two variables now. When the only required one is KICAD_EXTRA_VERSION.

[Jean-Samuel Reynaud (js-reynaud)]

Not a PPA issue. It was fixed in kicad himself.