[Haskell-cafe] Inject cabal version or VCS version as a CPP macro

[Eugene Kirpichov]

Hey,

I created a small package:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vcs-revision, repo
http://github.com/jkff/vcs-revision

It can be used like this:

{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
 import Distribution.VcsRevision.Git
 import Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax

 showMyGitVersion :: String
 showMyGitVersion = $(do
   v <- qRunIO getRevision
   lift $ case v of
     Nothing           -> "<none>"
     Just (hash,True)  -> hash ++ " (with local modifications)"
     Just (hash,False) -> hash)


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'd like my program to print something like "this is $program 1.0.4 git
> > 45fea6b" when invoked with --version, or at least just the 1.0.4 part.
>
> Here's some proof-of-concept code we use slightly modified in production
> here for over a year now successfully:
>
>  https://gist.github.com/656738
>
> The primary goal was to have a reliable version number (allowing to find
> the exact corresponding git-commit in the source-code repository), and
> to be able to detect when that version number is unreliable (there's
> nothing more annoying than wasting time debugging the wrong
> source-code...).
>
> The idea is to dynamically infer and overwrite cabal's version when
> building from the git repository, and have it accessible via the cabal's
> auto-generated "Paths_<pkg-name>" module Data.Version...
>
> ...and when creating a source-dist, via "runghc Setup.hs sdist" the
> current dynamic git-version string is embedded into the generated
> .tar.gz's .cabal file, so that the source-distribution is just a plain
> simple .cabal project (that could be uploaded to hackage)
>
> hth,
> hvr
> --
>



-- 
Eugene Kirpichov
Principal Engineer, Mirantis Inc. http://www.mirantis.com/
Editor, http://fprog.ru/
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