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

[Craig Bradney]

> On 3 Jun 2014, at 8:25, "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/06/14 07:16, Craig Bradney wrote:
>>> On 3/06/2014 3:57 am, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>>> 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:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>     > On 3 Jun 2014, at 0:31, Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au
>>>>>     <mailto:cbradney at zip.com.au>> wrote:
>>>>>     >
>>>>>     > Hi
>>>>>     >
>>>>>     > I have added this capability tonight thanks to
>>>>>     >
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3780667/use-cmake-to-get-build-time-svn-revision
>>>>>     >
>>>>>     > Test it and see. If it all breaks for you tomorrow.. just
>>>>>     comment out the new lines until I can fix.
>>>>>     > Works here ok.
>>>>>     >
>>>>>     >
>>>>> 
>>>>>     @Jean : as you don't use CMake I guess just #ifndef the about code
>>>>>     out for Windoze builds. :)
>>>>> 
>>>>>     Or you will have to write a script to pull in the svn version too.
>>>>> 
>>>>>     Craig
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>> 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
>>> 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
>> Correct. And that will not be auto set.
> 
> any rationals for this?
> 
> personally, i find the "bump date"s in the logs a bit strange...
> 
> 

We commit any small fixes, so that's where the revision number helps. Maybe we should just use the date next to the version number, or remove it entirely.

Craig