My Experience - Early on

[michealPW]

Hi everyone,
I found out about Warzone2100 on Google. I search for "Top GNU/Linux Games" and sure enough, there was an article with a list of "Top 42", which Warzone2100 was on:)

I'm confused about the revision numbers.

For example, my Ubuntu 8.04 repository offers "Trunk r3595". I tried it out and loved it. I really wanted more, so I found wz2100.net with Google. I decided I wanted to help in whatever what I could, so I downloaded the "2.1 Beta 2". Only the source was available for GNU/Linux. That's what I preferred, but it would be nice for the newer GNU/Linux users to have binary installers like the Windows folks get --Once I learn how to build them I'd be happy to provide them myself--

Anyways, I compiled it and submitted some feedback about it. It seemed logical for it to report that it's "2.1 r0", at the time.

I then wanted to try out the very latest in the works so I went back to wz2100.net/download under "Developers", I clicked on Daily Trunk Snapshot and compiled it. I'm confused, now, as it reports that it's version "Trunk r0".

This must be a mistake, or is the link that old, that it's actually revision 0 of the Trunk branch? (3 thousand, 5 hundred, ninety-five revisions prior to the one in the Ubuntu repository?!) I looked in the changelog that came with the Trunk Snapshot, the last entry was about Beta 3 but wz2100.net/download only offers a link to Beta 2.

Forgive me, I'm new, but what version do I submit a bug report under if the "Daily Trunk Snapshot" has a problem? (It does, more info later once I establish what version it is, no point complaining about something if it's really old?)

[skellr]

Hello,
Yeah, the snapshot tarballs are kind funky that way.

When you compile from source it will use autorevision to determine the revison. It gets information from the file .svn/entries. I'm guessing since the .svn/ directory is 'hidden' it is not included by whatever generates the snapshot tarball.

You could use subversion to get the source.

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svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/warzone/trunk

Then just run 'svn up' from the trunk directory when you want to update.

The branch is also good.

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svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/warzone/branches/2.1/

[Per]

The Ubuntu "Trunk r3595" version is truly ancient and buggy, why do they keep distributing it

If you want to report bugs against the daily trunk snapshots, set the version field to "svn/trunk".

Thanks for wanting to help!

[michealPW]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the added info, I do not have subversion installed, so I suppose autorevision never stood a chance when it came to setting the revision number:)

Thanks for the tip, I'll submit my bug report about the Nightly Beta3 as soon as I collect a little more information;)