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ReleaseData generation update

Attila Krasznahorkay requested to merge akraszna/atlasexternals:ReleaseDataUpdate-20170307 into master

Updated the way the ReleaseData file is generated for ATLAS projects according to the discussion on ATLINFR-1570. But the update is not final like this yet. I expect that some of the fields in ReleaseData will have to be renamed to avoid confusion.

The CMake configuration produces a file like the following with this code:

[release_metadata]
release:22.0.0
nightly name:ReleaseDataUpdate-20170307
project name:AthenaExternals
nightly release:98b1721
date:2017-03-07T1755
compiler:GNU-6.2.0

I'm not absolutely sure about a few things though:

  • Should we update the names of the "nightly name" and "nightly release" fields to reflect more what we're using them now for? I absolutely believe that athena.py should still print these values as it did for "nightly name" and "nightly release", but these names may be misleading a few years from now.
  • Unfortunately I can't attach Karolos easily to the MR, so I guess I'll pull him into the JIRA ticket. It would be good to discuss whether the git commands that I took from a Google search are okay for us or not. (I did check that they fail gracefully when the source directory is not a git repository.)

In general all feedback is welcome.

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