ntpd/varsion.h

[Hal Murray]

Thanks.

> I don't think version.h itself belongs in a source tarball, but *some* kind
> of git-independent version information needs to be, so that one can build
> outside a git repo.  The current kludgery that one has to go through with
> autorevision is tedious. 

There is also version.py

I think your "tedious" comment applies more to developers than downstream 
users.  If we get the tarball right, it should all just-work.

I routinely rsync bits to systems without git and build without problems.  
There is a layer of magic needed to make .autorevision-cache  I do that at 
the shell level by copying the code that waf used to generate version.h and 
then throwing away version.h  That has the side effect of making 
.autorevision-cache which is what I really want.

We could clean things up by moving that code to waf where the make-tarball 
script could use it.



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