Re: SVN version number in the documentation?

[Andrew Hood <ajhood () fl net au>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> I suspect their problem was that they didn't have Subversion installed on the build machine, so there was no 
> svnversion command available

If you are building from a SVN/CVS tree you should be expected to have
the tools on the build machine.

> The User's Guide says "36497 for Wireshark 1.5"; should we do as we do for the programs, and not bother giving the 
> SVN version number if you're not building from SVN?

I prefer to always have the SVN/CVS/etc revision or tag embedded as a
reference to exactly what version I'm looking at.

Andrew
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