[GCC-XML] 0.9 tag in github

[Brad King]

On 05/22/2013 05:16 PM, Michka Popoff wrote:
> I am currently developing a formula for the homebrew package manager (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-headonly/pull/10), which will let people install gccxml easily on OS X. (Here are some informations on homebrew if you don't know it : http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/).The ultimate goal is to propose an ITK formula, simplifying the installation on OS X (one line install, no need to know anything about cmake). To be able to install ITK with python wrapping, gccxml is needed.

Note that gccxml will need further work to *run* with Clang after
compiling.  There is some discussion here:

 https://github.com/gccxml/gccxml/pull/3

> For the moment the last tag on github for gccxml is 0.6., but the version you get is 0.9 when installing from head. So I was wondering if there is a shift in version numbers or missing tags in git ? If there is missing tags, would it be possible to add the tag for 0.9 ? This seems confusing.
> 
> Secondly, the latest commits correcting the compilation with clang work nicely. I don't know if there is a plan to go to the next version for gccxml, so that we can have a stable version which compiles on OS X (and not a HEAD version).

We don't maintain a series of numbered releases anymore, but 'master'
stays quite stable.  Just manually choose a commit sha1 in the
"git log --first-parent" history behind master and package that.
Use a version number like "0.9.0.$date" where "$date" is the committer
date of the chosen commit in the format CCYYMMDD.  For example:

 $ git log -n 2 master --first-parent --format='%cd %H' --date=iso
 2013-05-02 10:12:20 -0400 567213ac765c99d5dfd23b14000b3c7b76274fcb
 2013-05-02 10:12:20 -0400 875b2c14f309fa254f531584a62c1bd01e84ce58

so you can package commit 567213ac as 0.9.0.20130502.  The gccxml
Debian package uses a similar approach.

-Brad