why is RTEMS_VERSION not set?

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Mit, 2003-02-26 um 16.01 schrieb Valette Eric:
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> > As a side note, I think it would be nice to have some
> > cpp constants like RTEMS_VERSION_MAJOR, RTEMS_VERSION_MINOR or
> > something that could be tested in conditional code. It has
> > been disccused a few times over the years but never got to a 
> > concrete proposal that would be useful to applciations.
> 
> While I do not really care about RTEMS_VERSION, it is sometimes useful 
> for system to provide such information so that specific work around can 
> be developed for a particular version or incompatible API's... 
The problem with the current implementation of RTEMS_VERSION is it being
a string. 

This prevents it being applicable to comparisons in preprocessor
conditionals (#if ( RTEMS_VERSION < 4.5 )) and makes it only applicable
to preprocessor conditional checking for presence of it (#ifdef
RTEMS_VERSION).

Ralf