[webkit-dev] How to find a WebKit Nightly corresponding roughly to particular Safari version

[Darin Adler]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Thomas Jaggi wrote:

> Thanks for your help. If I got that right, 38725 would correspond to  
> Safari 3.2.1 (http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/38725). Using the  
> 'official' detection script with 38707 (the last version before the  
> non-existing 38725) I'm told "Your WebKit version number is 528.5".  
> But according to Wikipedia this would be Safari 4. Am I doing  
> something wrong?

Unfortunately, due to branching, changeset numbers are not sufficient  
by themselves. Releases are done on branches. The changeset of the  
branch doesn't tell you what changeset on the main trunk is closest to  
that version. Typically it just indicates the latest main trunk  
changeset at the moment the release was tagged, which could be long  
after the release was done.

     -- Darin