[Opensim-dev] Current Status of OpenSim Git Master

[Ai Austin]

We are in a bit of a mess still with the Viewgit download file naming 
and its likely to cause confusion in issue reporting. The current dev 
master is still reporting  version: OpenSim 0.8.3.0 Dev. Until the 
time that the code changes to actually be 0.9.0.0 can we change the 
ViewGit download file name to

      opensim-0.8.3.0-dev-<seq>-<short-commit-code>.zip and .tar

Note the 4 part version number of course or this again will cause 
problems later, and a dev with the permissions needs to change this 
code when the actual version is changed in the repository dev master 
version. As others have said the bug code change in the current dev 
master maybe means its worth changing the version now to 0.9.0.0 and 
hence making the ViewGit download file name format be

      opensim-0.9.0.0-dev-<seq>-<short-commit-code>.zip and .tar

Unless there is a reason to add in the extra "g" in the front of the 
short commit code can we get rid of that? I know "g" cannot be in the 
hexadecimal commit codes so can be ignored.. but its just confusing 
and was not in the previous download file naming before the avination 
merge. Melanie is this something you can do as you made the change to 
the current file name format?

I have watched the comments to Tom on Mantis and here on the dev 
mailing list, and surely we all want to support Tom in tracking down 
and correcting the warnings (we now have 56 versus the 4 before the 
merge).  Warnings are not good and are best removed by the original 
code contributor when they are first introduced, as they bets 
understand their own intentions.  But I appreciate the large code 
merge and work by Ubit and others to smooth in the changes mean their 
priorities are with other issues rather than removing warnings.  But 
it makes sense as Garmin and others have said not to make big comment 
deletions where those might be helpful to devs in future.  Just 
sticking with correcting the cause of the warning would be helpful at 
this stage.