openmicroscopy/bioformats — pull request #636 by joshmoore (2013-08-13 08:01:57+00:00)
Title: Use `git describe` for Bio-Formats version (See #9639) (rebased onto dev_4_4)

This is the same as gh-627 but rebased onto dev_4_4.

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Current releases 2 PRs in the BF repository: 1 to bump the version numbers to the release value (`4.5-DEV` --> `5.0.0-beta1`) and one to bump to either rollback or to bump to new DEV versions (`5.0.0-beta1` --> `4.5-DEV` or `5.0.0-beta2-DEV`)

Tasks/features involved:
* [x] Add git describe commands and regexes to `ant/common.xml`
* [x] Remove hard-coded references to the version from `build.properties` files and source
* [x] Allow overriding by `omero.version`
* [ ] Set version in maven (using perhaps [mavanagaiata](http://koraktor.de/mavanagaiata/usage.html) or [jgit-buildnumber](https://github.com/alx3apps/jgit-buildnumber)
* [ ] Fix cppwrap header references (using string replacement?)