Build Number revisited

[Barry Roberts]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 19:40 -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:

> 	I understand what you're saying, but do not that this is most  
> assuredly *not* a build number.  Build numbers come from build systems  
> when they produce builds.  The identifier you have here is only  
> indicating the sequence in which a given change was accepted.

I'm just curious.  My home-grown CI system automatically fetches this
number, puts it into the build, and uses it to uniquely identify that
build.  Is that not a build number simply because it's generated by CVS
or hg as opposed to the update/build/deploy scripts?  Or is it because
not every number corresponds to a build?

My testers don't use cvs or hg, so the build number has to available
from within the built and deployed application (they're mostly web
apps).

Thanks,
Barry