Instead of using a URL and git sha1, this uses `git describe` to
describe the version relative to the nearest previous git tag, which
gives a better indication of whether this is a release, a prerelease,
a slightly patched prerelease, or a long way after the last release
during active development.
This serves two purposes: it makes those APIs more informative, and it
also puts this information into the binary in a form that is easy to
screen-scrape using strings(1). For instance, if the bundled version of
SDL in a game has this, we can see at a glance what version it is.
It's also shorter than using the web address of the origin git
repository and the full git commit sha1.
Also write the computed version into a file ./VERSION in `make dist`
tarballs, so that when we build from a tarball on a system that doesn't
have git available, we still get the version details.
For the Perforce code path in showrev.sh, output the version number
followed by the Perforce revision, in a format reminiscent of
`git describe` (with p instead of g to indicate Perforce).
For the code path with no VCS available at all, put a suffix on the
version number to indicate that this is just a guess (we can't know
whether this SDL version is actually a git snapshot or has been
patched locally or similar).
Resolves: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/6418
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Make sure the SDL java and C code match when updating SDL in a game.
Right now we're assuming that we only have to make sure release versions match. We can extend the version string with an interface version if we need more fine grained sanity checking.
Fixes https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/1540
For stable releases, this gives us the ability to make bugfix-only point
releases such as 2.24.1 if we want to, and distinguish between them
programmatically. For example, this ability could have been useful after
2.0.16 to fix Xwayland regressions, and after 2.0.18 to fix event loop
regressions.
For development releases, this gives us the ability to make multiple
prereleases during the same feature cycle, and distinguish between them
programmatically. For example, this would have been useful during 2.0.22
development, which went through three prereleases before reaching the
final release.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
GitHub Actions is a 64-bit Ubuntu instance. It was only using the 32-bit
binaries because our buildbot put this on the 32-bit Linux host to spread
the CPU load around more evenly.
