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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

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 ...

Regards, ULFL