Re: [hatari-devel] OS compatibility documentation for builds?

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Sat, 2 Dec 2017 00:56:16 +0200
schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
> 
> On 12/02/2017 12:58 AM, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> > Le 30/11/2017 à 23:40, Christer Solskogen a écrit :  
> >> I somewhat disagree on that part. Everyone *should* know that
> >> these are test builds. Wherever they got the URL.
> >> Perhaps state it on https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/links.html as
> >> well.  
> > 
> > I had some thoughts about the naming for each build / directory ;
> > so far, it uses the unique id for the revision, which means the
> > directory are not sorted in date order in ~/hatari. Also, UID might
> > look a little "scary" to some people, compared to a simple number.
> > 
> > What about using the rev number instead ? It might be easier to 
> > understand and as it's a number, directory would be correctly
> > sorted in ~/hatari.
> > 
> > for example, hatari-6be31ec5ad6d would be hatari-rev6768 instead.  
> 
> Maybe hatari-commit-<revnumber>
> 
> To make it clearer builds happen for (nearly) all commits?

Please note that the increasing revnumbers are not unique... They can
be different in e.g. the developer's local repository. I hope this won't
cause any confusing when somebody reports an error with one of the
revisions...

 Thomas