[scribus-dev] Is there a way to show the compiled build revision # for a dev build

[Kunda Loves Scribus]

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> the patch generates a VERSION_SVN constant that shows the svn version at
> the time cmake has been run.
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> but what you want, is the version at the time make is run...
> (if, like me and most people, you are only running cmake when make fails
> because of bigger stucture changes).
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> my conclusion at that time: it might be possible to get the information
> into scribus, but the effort to get to it is imo way to high for the use of
> that information...
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>

Do we need to reinvent the wheel here? Are there other projects out there
that do something like this that we can learn from ?

Or an ugly hack for now that we at compile time say something like: echo
"$sorcery_that_tells_us_revision#"  > .svn_revision.txt

/Kunda
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