Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> writes: > I find it a bit annoying that I end up with all of the following > information after building wget: [...] > The first part is reasonable (even if I don't like the fact that the > exact OS version is hardcoded; after security updates the binary will > change only due to the increased minor version, so reproducibility is > lost):
Mostly, --version is so that if someone wants to know if the documentation they're reading matches the executable they're running, they can tell. And as Tim said, --version gives the information that a developer needs for a bug report. But you say "reproducibility is lost"... It sounds like you have a need that the current --version cannot be used to satisfy. What is that need? Dale
