Re: Version discovery...

[Alex Perez]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 address@hidden wrote:

> Citát Adam Fedor <address@hidden>:
> 
> > 
> > On Oct 13, 2004, at 11:10 PM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > 
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I was recently discussing this on IRC with Alex P, and he brought up 
> > > something
> > > I've been thinking about for a while....
> > >
> > > Is there currently a way to discover the version of gui or base an 
> > > application
> > > is running on?
> > >
> > > Some applications, Gorm in particular, are sensitive to this.  I would 
> > > like to
> > > make enhancements such that it will not start and will warn the user 
> > > if a
> > > minimum version of the libraries are not present.
> > >
> > >
> > There's a string 'gnustep_base_version' defined in the library which 
> > isn't marked static, so theoretically an application could have access 
> > to that, but there probably ought to be a better way.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Can we have some number version, so it can be compared by #if ? Something 
> like:
> 
> #degfine GNUSTEP_BASE_VERSION 110

Under OS X and OPENSTEP, there's an NSAppKitVersionNumber...maybe we could 
use GSAppKitVersionNumber and GSFoundationVersionNumber to stay more 
in-line with the naming scheme that's been in place for over 10 years? 
Otherwise your idea is quite a good one.

> I would suggest to use format 100*major + minor. It would ignore 
> patch/subminor
> number as there are usualy incompatibilities between minor releases for 
> non-cvs
> users. Majority of CVS users have up-to date sources anyway and they are often
> aware of possible incompatibilities.
> 
> Similar would be for GNUSTEP_GUI_VERSION and probably GNUSTEP_VERSION.
well there is currently no whole "GNUstep version" but there probably 
should be.