Re: Release process

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 17:58, Robert Eden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 4/19/2022 11:26 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > If you go to the repo, and select "actions", and
> > then select the build (named after the commit
> > that triggered the build) at the bottom should
> > be an artifact group.  In this case called xmltv,
> > which, if you click on the xmltv a xmltv.zip file
> > is downloaded.  Inside that should be the
> > xmltv.exe file.
> >
> Works great!  I may be out of the alpha-exe job!
>
> Two comments:
> 1. xmltv.exe --version displays the current version and doesn't mention
> it's an "unreleased nightly".  Any idea how/if that should be addressed
> or how other projects deal with it?

In addition to a date (if it's necessary), I would like to see the git
commit ID in the nightly version string which removes any ambiguity
about the source tree.

It also means checking out the code to test (e.g. from a github issue)
is simply:

$ git checkout <commit>

Thanks,
Nick