[flashrom-gerrit] Change in flashrom[master]: util/getversion,meson: Add script to allow version info with Meson

[Mario Limonciello (Code Review)]

Mario Limonciello has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/35561 )

Change subject: util/getversion,meson: Add script to allow version info with Meson
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Patch Set 1:

This is certainly functional, but I think that the version strings spit out don't make sense for libflashrom.  They include letters and are not monotonically increasing, even at tagged releases.  So I think some sed magic is going to be needed to make it useful.

Here was what I got out of a test run in pkg-config: "Version: v1.1-rc1-85-ge094fb4"

Quoting https://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html:
> The Name, Description and URL fields are purely informational and should be easy to fill in. 
> The Version field is a bit trickier to ensure that it is usable by consumers of the data. 
> pkg-config uses the algorithm from RPM for version comparisons. This works best with a 
> dotted decimal number such as 1.2.3 since letters can cause unexpected results. The number 
> should be monotonically increasing and be as specific as possible in describing the library. > Usually it's sufficient to use the package's version number here since it's easy for 
> consumers to track.