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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 5 23:36:10 -0700 2005 ------- Hi wsp! << not mandatory, soffice as a UNIX program must have it. No ... it's not a must. It's usual style doing so. And further there is no rule or format, which describes how a version info must be shown. Here some examples: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "uname --version": uname (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "kwrite --version" Qt: 3.3.3 KDE: 3.3.0 KWrite: 4.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "mozilla --version" Mozilla 1.7.2, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org, build 2004090600 E.g. for kwrite you will have problems if you try to extract the version number from the output. I guess you will get the version of QT instead of kwrite. And further e.g. mozilla needs a X Display. Otherwhise no information is shown ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To make it short. The only possible solutions for this bug are: a) Use the informations provided by the OS depending package manager (as e.g. apt, rpm, msi database etcpp) ... b) Parse the bootstraprc from the office to find out the major/minor/patch info. (e.g. 645m52) ... c) Use soffice --help (as it shows any version number, which should be good enough to be interpreted by humans not programs but is not guaranteed as a stable feature) ... or d) point us to a RFE or specification, which describes the format and rules around versions, so we can implement it. Last but not least: I'm pretty sure that there is no way to guarantee that a shown version number can be used directly as a part of an URL to be able to download the right update. That would require a framework, where web servers / mirrors / developers / vendors work together. And especialy on OOo I dont see that currently. BTW: Please accept the shown solutions a-c) or came back with any informations regarding to d). Regards Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
