[Scribus] Re: build date not updated

[Andreas Vox]

Bart wrote:
> Andreas Vox wrote:
>
> > Craig wrote:
> >
> >> On Saturday 08 October 2005 01:13, Bart Alberti wrote:
> >> > Today is Fri Oct 7, 2005 but after several days the build string 
> still
> >> > shows 3 Oct from this minute (4 PM PDT USA) cvs.
> >> > Is line 49 is the controlling string from 
> Scribus/scribus/about.cpp
> >> ...
> >> >      49         QString bu = tr("%1 %2 %3
> >> > ").arg("03").arg("October").arg("2005 ");
> >>
> >> Yes.. thats correct.. CVS has changed, but we dont always update 
> that
> >> file..
> >
> >
> > Not any more :-).
> >

Looks as if I've been a little too fast there.
Other developers convinced me that we only want to change that date 
manually, since this gets reported back from users if something goes 
wrong (eg. on bugs.scribus.net) and we don't want to have too many 
values there.

So it's more a "release" date or a "snapshot" date. The current code 
goes back to the old behaviour.

> > The build date is now taken from the file "about_builddate.inc", 
> which
> > is regenerated after every "make clean".
> >
> > Ah, yes, and it now also states the build time (some people are known
> > to build Scribus several times a day :-) )
> >
> > /Andreas
> >
> Yes, but make is really 'make incremental'
> whereas 'make clean' puts the compiler to work the whole thing from 
> scratch.
> I have a fast and a slow Linux box (the slow one is P-III, 500 MHz) and
> it takes over an HOUR for it to churn through the compile.

I've been a bit unprecise there, a "rm scribus/about_builddate.inc" 
would have been enough to get the new date. :-)

/Andreas