Need to expose the SVN revision number as a constant

[lsansonetti@…]

It would be great for debugging purposes to expose the SVN revision number as a constant in MacRuby. Maybe MACRUBY_REVISION.

[self@…]

One thing to keep in mind is that if you ever move to a VCS like Git (although this issue is not exclusive to Git) you lose the concept of a "revision number". For example Git commits are identified by a hash.

[lsansonetti@…]

A patch was contributed by Vincent Isambart that implements this feature. It works for both SVN and Git.

$ ./miniruby -e "p MACRUBY_REVISION"
"svn revision 745 from http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/ruby/MacRuby/trunk"

It has been committed as r766.

[lsansonetti@…]

Looking more carefully, looks like the revision number is not the latest one. I pinged Vincent. Re-opening the ticket.

[lsansonetti@…]

Forgot to do "svn update", mea culpa :-)