nest · Helveg · Apr 27, 2023 · Apr 26, 2023 · Apr 26, 2023 · Apr 26, 2023
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ set( with-intel-compiler-flags OFF CACHE STRING "User defined flags for the Inte
 set( with-libraries OFF CACHE STRING "Link additional libraries [default=OFF]. Give full path. Separate multiple libraries by ';'." )
 set( with-includes OFF CACHE STRING "Add additional include paths [default=OFF]. Give full path without '-I'. Separate multiple include paths by ';'." )
 set( with-defines OFF CACHE STRING "Additional defines, e.g. '-DXYZ=1' [default=OFF]. Separate multiple defines by ';'." )
-set( with-version-suffix "" CACHE STRING "Set a user defined version suffix [default='']." )
 
 # documentation build configuration
 set( with-userdoc OFF CACHE STRING "Build user documentation [default=OFF]")
@@ -150,7 +149,6 @@ nest_process_with_sionlib()
 nest_process_with_mpi4py()
 nest_process_with_boost()
 nest_process_target_bits_split()
-nest_process_version_suffix()
 nest_process_userdoc()
 nest_process_devdoc()
 
@@ -183,17 +181,10 @@ nest_check_have_std_nan()
 nest_check_have_std_isnan()
 nest_check_random123()
 
-################################################################################
-##################           Create version string            ##################
-################################################################################
-
 include( NestVersionInfo )
 get_version_info()
-printInfo("-- NEST version: ${NEST_VERSION_STRING}")
+printInfo("Done configuring NEST version: ${NEST_VERSION}")
 
-################################################################################
-##################         Enable Testing Targets             ##################
-################################################################################
 enable_testing()
 set( TEST_OPTS "" )
 

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.4.0-post0.dev0
diff --git a/bin/nest-config.in b/bin/nest-config.in
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ while test $# -gt 0; do
         echo $exec_prefix
         ;;
     --version)
-        echo "@NEST_VERSION_STRING@"
+        echo "@NEST_VERSION@"
         ;;
     --help)
         usage 0

diff --git a/build_support/version_info.sh b/build_support/version_info.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# version_info.sh
+#
+# This file is part of NEST.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2004 The NEST Initiative
+#
+# NEST is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# NEST is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with NEST.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# This script extracts version control information to be used in
+# cmake/NestVersionInfo.cmake
+
+HASH=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+
+# Might fail if not on a branch, or no remote tracking branch is set
+BRANCH_REMOTE=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name @{u} 2>&1)
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  REMOTE=$(echo ${BRANCH_REMOTE} | cut -d\/ -f1)
+else
+  REMOTE="unknown"
+fi
+
+# Might fail if we are not on a branch (i.e. in 'detached HEAD' mode)
+BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+if [ ! $? -eq 0 ] || [ ${BRANCH} = "HEAD" ]; then
+  BRANCH="unknown"
+fi
+
+# Printing with semicolons as separators, as this will be interpreted as
+# a list by cmake
+echo ${HASH}\;${BRANCH}\;${REMOTE}
diff --git a/cmake/NestVersionInfo.cmake b/cmake/NestVersionInfo.cmake
@@ -17,59 +17,31 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with NEST.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-# Determine NEST version based on git branch
+# Put NEST version number and version control information into CMake variables
 #
 # This module defines
-#  NEST_VERSION_BRANCH, the current git branch (nest-3.0)
-#  NEST_VERSION_SUFFIX, set using -Dwith-version-suffix=<suffix>. ("-pre")
-#  NEST_VERSION, the numeric version number plus the suffix  ("3.0-pre")
-#  NEST_VERSION_GITHASH, the current git revision hash (empty for tarballs) ("dd47c39ce")
-#  NEST_VERSION_STRING, the full NEST version string ("nest-3.0-pre@dd47c39ce")
+#   NEST_VERSION, the numeric version number including a suffix
+#   NEST_VERSION_GIT, a boolean indicating if source is managed by git
+#   NEST_VERSION_GIT_HASH, the current git revision hash (unset for tarballs)
+#   NEST_VERSION_GIT_BRANCH, the current git branch (unset for tarballs)
+#   NEST_VERSION_GIT_REMOTE, the tracked remote branch (unset for tarballs)
 #
-# In release branches, the string "UNKNOWN" below has to be replaced
-# with the proper version (e.g. "nest-2.20") in order to get the
-# correct version number if building from tarballs.
-
 
 macro(get_version_info)
 
-    if (EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.git")
-        execute_process(
-            COMMAND "git" "rev-parse" "--short" "HEAD"
-            OUTPUT_VARIABLE NEST_VERSION_GITHASH
-            OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
-            WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}"
-        )
-
-        execute_process(
-            COMMAND "git" "rev-parse" "--abbrev-ref" "HEAD"
-            OUTPUT_VARIABLE NEST_VERSION_BRANCH
-            OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
-            WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}"
-        )
-
-        if (NEST_VERSION_SUFFIX)
-            set(versionsuffix "-${NEST_VERSION_SUFFIX}")
-        endif()
-
-        if (NEST_VERSION_GITHASH)
-            set(githash "@${NEST_VERSION_GITHASH}")
-        endif()
-    endif()
-
-    if (NOT NEST_VERSION_BRANCH)
-        set(NEST_VERSION_BRANCH "UNKNOWN")
-    endif()
-
-    string(SUBSTRING "${NEST_VERSION_BRANCH}" 0 5 isRelease)
-    if (isRelease STREQUAL "nest-")
-        string(SUBSTRING "${NEST_VERSION_BRANCH}${versionsuffix}" 5 99999 NEST_VERSION)
-    else()
-        set(NEST_VERSION "${NEST_VERSION_BRANCH}${versionsuffix}")
-    endif()
-
-    set(NEST_VERSION_STRING "${NEST_VERSION_BRANCH}${versionsuffix}${githash}")
-    unset(branchname)
-    unset(versionsuffix)
+  file (STRINGS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/VERSION" NEST_VERSION )
+
+  if (EXISTS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/.git")
+    set( NEST_VERSION_GIT 1 )
+    execute_process(
+      COMMAND "bash" "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/build_support/version_info.sh"
+      OUTPUT_VARIABLE NEST_VERSION_INFO
+      OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+      WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}"
+    )
+    list( GET NEST_VERSION_INFO 0 NEST_VERSION_GIT_HASH )
+    list( GET NEST_VERSION_INFO 1 NEST_VERSION_GIT_BRANCH )
+    list( GET NEST_VERSION_INFO 2 NEST_VERSION_GIT_REMOTE )
+  endif()
 
 endmacro()
diff --git a/cmake/ProcessOptions.cmake b/cmake/ProcessOptions.cmake
@@ -33,14 +33,6 @@ function( NEST_PROCESS_WITH_OPTIMIZE )
   endif ()
 endfunction()
 
-function( NEST_PROCESS_VERSION_SUFFIX )
-  if ( with-version-suffix )
-    foreach ( flag ${with-version-suffix} )
-      set( NEST_VERSION_SUFFIX "${flag}" PARENT_SCOPE )
-    endforeach ()
-  endif ()
-endfunction()
-
 function( NEST_PROCESS_WITH_DEBUG )
   if ( with-debug )
     if ( with-debug STREQUAL "ON" )
@@ -660,4 +652,4 @@ function( NEST_PROCESS_DEVDOC )
     set( BUILD_DOXYGEN_DOCS ON PARENT_SCOPE )
     set( BUILD_DOCS ON PARENT_SCOPE )
   endif ()
-endfunction ()
+endfunction ()
diff --git a/doc/fulldoc.conf.in b/doc/fulldoc.conf.in
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME           = NEST
 # could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or if some version
 # control system is used.
 
-PROJECT_NUMBER         = @NEST_VERSION_STRING@
+PROJECT_NUMBER         = @NEST_VERSION@
 
 # Using the PROJECT_BRIEF tag one can provide an optional one line description
 # for a project that appears at the top of each page and should give viewer a

diff --git a/libnestutil/config.h.in b/libnestutil/config.h.in
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
   configuration process. Please make all changes in config.h.in.
 */
 
-#define NEST_VERSION_STRING "@NEST_VERSION_STRING@"
-#define NEST_VERSION_BRANCH "@NEST_VERSION_BRANCH@"
-#define NEST_VERSION_SUFFIX "@NEST_VERSION_SUFFIX@"
 #define NEST_VERSION "@NEST_VERSION@"
-#define NEST_VERSION_GITHASH "@NEST_VERSION_GITHASH@"
+#cmakedefine NEST_VERSION_GIT "@NEST_VERSION_GIT@"
+#cmakedefine NEST_VERSION_GIT_HASH "@NEST_VERSION_GIT_HASH@"
+#cmakedefine NEST_VERSION_GIT_BRANCH "@NEST_VERSION_GIT_BRANCH@"
+#cmakedefine NEST_VERSION_GIT_REMOTE "@NEST_VERSION_GIT_REMOTE@"
 
 // TODO NEST_HOST and NEST_HOSTVENDOR not available with cmake
 #define NEST_HOST "@NEST_TARGET_TRIPLE@"

diff --git a/nestkernel/recording_backend_ascii.cpp b/nestkernel/recording_backend_ascii.cpp
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ nest::RecordingBackendASCII::DeviceData::open_file()
     throw IOError();
   }
 
-  file_ << "# NEST version: " << NEST_VERSION_STRING << std::endl
+  file_ << "# NEST version: " << NEST_VERSION << std::endl
         << "# RecordingBackendASCII version: " << ASCII_REC_BACKEND_VERSION << std::endl;
 
   const std::string timehead = ( time_in_steps_ ) ? "\ttime_step\ttime_offset" : "\ttime_ms";

diff --git a/nestkernel/recording_backend_sionlib.cpp b/nestkernel/recording_backend_sionlib.cpp
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ nest::RecordingBackendSIONlib::close_files_()
       sion_fwrite( &SIONLIB_REC_BACKEND_VERSION, sizeof( sion_uint32 ), 1, file.sid );
 
       // write nest version into sionlib container file
-      const char* nest_version = NEST_VERSION_STRING;
+      const char* nest_version = NEST_VERSION;
       char version_buffer[ NEST_VERSION_BUFFERSIZE ];
       strncpy( version_buffer, nest_version, NEST_VERSION_BUFFERSIZE - 1 );
       version_buffer[ NEST_VERSION_BUFFERSIZE - 1 ] = '\0';

diff --git a/pynest/setup.py.in b/pynest/setup.py.in
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(
     name = 'nest-simulator',
-    version = '@NEST_VERSION@@githash@',
+    version = '@NEST_VERSION@',
     description = 'Python bindings for NEST',
     author = 'The NEST Initiative',
     url = 'https://www.nest-simulator.org',

diff --git a/sli/slistartup.cc b/sli/slistartup.cc
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ SLIStartup::SLIStartup( int argc, char** argv )
   , debug_( false )
   , argv_name( "argv" )
   , version_name( "version" )
+  , version_git_info_name( "git_info" )
+  , version_git_hash_name( "hash" )
+  , version_git_branch_name( "branch" )
+  , version_git_remote_name( "remote" )
   , exitcode_name( "exitcode" )
   , prgbuilt_name( "built" )
   , prefix_name( "prefix" )
@@ -274,7 +278,14 @@ SLIStartup::init( SLIInterpreter* i )
   assert( statusdict.valid() );
 
   statusdict->insert_move( argv_name, commandline_args_ );
-  statusdict->insert( version_name, Token( new StringDatum( NEST_VERSION_STRING ) ) );
+  statusdict->insert( version_name, Token( new StringDatum( NEST_VERSION ) ) );
+#ifdef NEST_VERSION_GIT
+  DictionaryDatum rcsinfodict( new Dictionary() );
+  rcsinfodict->insert( version_git_hash_name, Token( new StringDatum( NEST_VERSION_GIT_HASH ) ) );
+  rcsinfodict->insert( version_git_branch_name, Token( new StringDatum( NEST_VERSION_GIT_BRANCH ) ) );
+  rcsinfodict->insert( version_git_remote_name, Token( new StringDatum( NEST_VERSION_GIT_REMOTE ) ) );
+  statusdict->insert( version_git_info_name, Token( rcsinfodict ) );
+#endif
   statusdict->insert( exitcode_name, Token( new IntegerDatum( EXIT_SUCCESS ) ) );
   statusdict->insert( prgbuilt_name, Token( new StringDatum( String::compose( "%1 %2", __DATE__, __TIME__ ) ) ) );
   statusdict->insert( prgdatadir_name, Token( new StringDatum( slilibdir ) ) );

diff --git a/sli/slistartup.h b/sli/slistartup.h
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ class SLIStartup : public SLIModule
 public:
   Name argv_name;
   Name version_name;
+  Name version_git_info_name;
+  Name version_git_hash_name;
+  Name version_git_branch_name;
+  Name version_git_remote_name;
   Name exitcode_name;
   Name prgbuilt_name;
   Name prefix_name;