[bind10-dev] BIND bindctl review && bindctl certificate

[Michael Pattrick]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nathanael Hoyle <bind at hoyletech.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:34, Shane Kerr wrote:
>> Nathanael,
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 12:51 -0400, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
>> > On 3/17/2010 12:23 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, zhanglikun wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >>>   help also shows a version hardcoded in the string that should come from
>> > >>>   configure
>> > >>>
>> > >> Yes, it should get the version number from configure file. (Add to
>> > >> TODO list) BTW, if the version number of all modules of bind10 should
>> > >> be same?
>> > >>
>> > > I think all components should have their own version numbers. That way
>> > > if we later release a bug fix for an individual software it easy to
>> > > recognize. So not use the BIND 10 version number from configure.
>> > >
>> > > Do we want to reset configure.ac for every individual component version
>> > > change?
>> > >
>> >
>> > First posting to this list... I've been lurking for a couple of days
>> > now, hope it's ok to chip in.
>>
>> It's okay - actually encouraged!
>>
>> > Generally speaking, my preference would be to track individual versions
>> > of software packages, and have them available, but to have an
>> > overarching version number associated with a "bind release" that is
>> > bumped whenever any of the component versions has a new version released.
>>
>> I think this makes sense, so you'd get something like this:
>>
>>         $ b10-auth --version
>>         b10-auth version 1.0.3
>>         BIND 10 version 10.0.0
>>
>> Right?
>>
>> --
>> Shane
>>
-snip -
> Alternately, a command like 'bind10-version' which gives the meta
> version and then interrogates each of the components to provide its
> version, would allow a user to quickly obtain and provide all version
> info.
>
> -Nathanael

Considering the modular and extensible nature of Bind10, this might be
best. After all, relying on an individual component would get sticky
if someone replaced it completely with their own version.

-Michael