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    Detect the snapshot version number using darcs · 06decfcd
    Simon Marlow authored
    For non-release builds, we want to append a date to the version number
    (e.g. 6.7.20070206).  Previously this was done by the nightly build
    script, this new method figures out the snapshot version by querying
    the darcs repository and finding the date of the most recent patch
    (actually it finds the most recent of the last 100 patches, but that
    should be good enough).  This is done by the configure script.
    
    To handle source distributions, we create a file VERSION in the
    top-level directory that contains the version number, and ship this in
    the source distribution.  The configure script picks up the version
    from this file if it doesn't see a _darcs directory.
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