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

[Gregory Pittman]

On 06/02/2014 09:49 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 06/02/2014 06:49 PM, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info 
>> <mailto:cbradney at scribus.info>> wrote:
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>>     > On 3 Jun 2014, at 0:31, Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au
>>     <mailto:cbradney at zip.com.au>> wrote:
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>>     > Hi
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>>     > I have added this capability tonight thanks to
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>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3780667/use-cmake-to-get-build-time-svn-revision
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>>     > Test it and see. If it all breaks for you tomorrow.. just
>>     comment out the new lines until I can fix.
>>     > Works here ok.
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>>     @Jean : as you don't use CMake I guess just #ifndef the about code
>>     out for Windoze builds. :)
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>>     Or you will have to write a script to pull in the svn version too.
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>>     Craig
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>> Craig,
>> 1st, you are a rockstar!!
>> 2nd, feedback: I compiled from r19172 on OS X 10.8.5
>> Opened the About Scribus dialog and I see:
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/504gx6ny4x5p4ug/r19172-About-Scribus-screenshot.png 
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> Worked Ok here on 19177 on Fedora 20.
> One thing you have to realize is that this About Date is only 
> periodically changed. It will not be the exact day you build, but 
> whatever the date was set to when last changed. I think it's in about.cpp
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Near the top of about.cpp you can find it hard-coded:

         QString BUILD_DAY = "29";
         QString BUILD_MONTH = CommonStrings::may;
         QString BUILD_YEAR = "2014";

Greg