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Hi Owen,<br>
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Unfortunately, in Gentoo when following the Head version, svn is
updated at each "emerge" attempt. Also, the build tree is
temporary, and if successful, erased leaving only the compiled
binaries and files to be staged for the production use.
Consequently, when I last successfully built Scribus, e.g. 9/10/12,
I only have a date and time stamp. When I subsequently attempt to
update and build off of the Head as of today, the staging area is
updated to current. I thus only have the date time build of the
binaries to determine what version it may be based on. I've done
that and if there is not a lot of activity, for example an update
every few days, then I can probably hit the precise version by
looking at a time line.<br>
<br>
Seems to me having a Subversion keyword $Id$ incorporated into the
code that populates a variables that, in turn, would be displayed on
the "About" window could be helpful and allow a use to determine
exactly what version they are running off of.<br>
<br>
<br>
I may take your suggestion (and mine using $Id$) and build a macro
that automatically creates what I'm suggesting. I'm just not a C++
programmer and would be wearing my hacking hat.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
John<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/11/2012 2:27 PM, Owen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 11/11/2012 04:41 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
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<pre wrap="">hi john,
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<pre wrap="">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 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://websvn.tigris.org/">http://websvn.tigris.org/</a>) 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.
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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.
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if you run 'svn info', you can get something like this:
Path: .
Working Copy Root Path: /home/gregp/development/scribus140
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="svn://scribus.net/branches/Version14x/Scribus">svn://scribus.net/branches/Version14x/Scribus</a>
Repository Root: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="svn://scribus.net">svn://scribus.net</a>
Repository UUID: 11d20701-8431-0410-a711-e3c959e3b870
Revision: 17869
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: jghali
Last Changed Rev: 17867
Last Changed Date: 2012-11-10 09:50:34 -0500 (Sat, 10 Nov 2012)
so if someone is using svn, this might be the quickest way.
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Again if you are using svn, having extracted the information fron 'svn
info,' go to (at the moment)line 119 of about.cpp and amend that and
the preceding 2 lines;
QString BUILD_DAY = "11";
QString BUILD_MONTH = CommonStrings::november;
QString BUILD_YEAR = "2012";
and line 122
QString BUILD_NAME = "17867";
That will take all of about 30 seconds, and give you this;
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/images/aboutScribus.png">http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/images/aboutScribus.png</a>
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