Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Retrieving the SVN repository version

From: Peter Johansson <Peter.Johansson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:12:41 +0100

Graham Bloice wrote:

Ulf Lamping wrote:

Joerg Mayer wrote:

Moin List,

I just wanted to fix
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=429
Instead of reverse engineering the .svn/entries format for svn 1.4 I
decided to ask the developers of svn about it, and they strongly
discouraged such a practice. They asked whether it was unacceptable to
require developers working with svn anyway to install svnversion (which
has some nice side effects, just run with --help). Considering the
amount of work that has to go into this (and it may happen again and
again) I'd like to think that it is indeed ok to require svnversion in
$PATH, but then, I'm on a platform where svnversion is installed anyway.
Btw, svnversion doesn't change its output depending on language
settings.

 Ciao
      Joerg

And now it get's ugly ;-)

If I try to use svnversion (in the WS sources dir) under cygwin I get:

svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client

This is due to the fact that I'm using TortoiseSVN (SVN 1.4.x) on my everyday work but the cygwin version in the PATH is still "svnversion, version 1.3.2 (r19776) compiled Jul 14 2006, 22:16:08."

Although I agree that svnversion is the way to go in principle, it will produce new problems on the Win32 platform :-(

Any ideas welcome ...

AFAIK there is no specific svn client recommendation for Win32 Wireshark
 work, then maybe it should be set to the svn command line tools, which
would ensure svnversion is available.  If developers then want to use
additional tools so be it.

There is one svn client mentioned in section 2.13.2 "Win32 native: TortoiseSVN" of the Wireshark developers guide ( http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html/#ChToolsTortoiseSVN ).

/ Peter