[bind10-dev] Proposal for handling version numbers

[Mukund Sivaraman]

Hi all

Here is a proposal to handle version numbers consistently:

* Introduce a Version class in libb10-util which implements:

 + get{Major,Minor,Micro}() methods (which will be set individually in
 configure.ac)

 + getDate() method that returns a date string such as "20130529" from
   the last git commit

 + getCommitHash() method that returns a string with the last git commit
   hash
 
The last commit date and hash are generated during build if HEAD has
changed and are dist'd appropriately, so builds from tarballs will work
correctly.

* Python bindings for the above.

* bin programs are updated to use this new class.

		Mukund
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