[nos-bbs] JNOS 2.0 rsync site changes

[maiko at pcsinternet.ca]

Hi John,

> Maiko, thank you for this change. You might want to update
> https://www.langelaar.net/jnos2/documents/dlcompinst.html

Thank you for the reminder. To be honest, I have not been thinking
terribly straight the past while, so even things like this seem to
be slipping my mind from time to time. I appreciate it, thank you.

> In future, will each change in the 'official' rsync module have
> its own unique version number?

Yes. The official will perhaps change only a few times a year, or
as has been the case, maybe once a year ? It depends what modules
I am comfortable taking out of development and moving into a new
official version. It's not as frequent as the 'early days' ...

> If so, how would I find the version number of files I just rsync'ed ?

There is a single source file which always reflects the version of
the source code that it's part of. This file is called version.c

> I hope it will be in a file in the 'official' rsync module.

Yes.

> To make this work, the developers would have to not to change the
> 'official' files, except when simultaneously assigning a new version
> number and publishing it in an 'official' file.

Exactly. The official is just a repository now, for the latest stable
release, not doing anymore development in it, it's to remain clean.

People that want to test development code can use the 'development'
rsync module to bring in files ON TOP of their official source, and
the 'development' code will have it's own version.c as well.

> In practice, I suppose they would make incremental changes in
> the 'development' files. When they're ready to release, they would all
> the accumulated changes into the 'official' files.

Exactly. It was becoming a mess, and I apologize if it's become 
maddening
for you folks. I never intended it to be that way, but that's how my 
mind
works sometimes, so I am trying to get more 'organized' with all of 
this.

> Best regards,
> John Kristian W6JMK

You too, thanks again John.

Maiko / VE4KLM