[scribus] Build Version Ascertainable?

[Joop Kiefte]

It's possible to add the information in a version-file somewhere, and write
this version-file with the make scripts.


2012/11/11 ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>

> hi john,
>
> > I've been building Scribus from the high watermark of SVN (1.5) and
> > need to determine what version my currently running edition is from.
> > Using Help-About does not provide me the Subversion version and gives
> > me a date of "1 August 2012" when my system notes I built it 18:33:17
> > 09/10/12 PDT.
> >
> > Is the Subversion version which Scribus is built from ascertainable
> > from a running instance?  If not, is there a file is the staged tree
> > that might reflect it?  I built Scribus using Gentoo's portage
> > facility which basically pulls whatever is HEAD at the time I
> > update.  In this case, I think I last successfully built on 18:33:17
> > 09/10/12 PDT.  I'm going to go look at the Subversion repository (I
> > hope there is a websvn (http://websvn.tigris.org/) interface) and
> > determine what version was HEAD around that time.
> >
> > It seems to me having a Subversion version and date included in the
> > About box might be helpful.
>
> this has been discussed a few times already, but (afaik) nobody brought
> a usable solution.
>
> another useful feature, would be to add the git branch, for the ones
> who compile from gif.
>
> the main question is: how can we hack the cmake scripts to
> automatically add such information?
>
> is there anybody on this list with the knowledge needed to do it?
>
> have a nice day
> a.l.e
>
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