Jon Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> > Just change "VERSION" to "COURIER_COPYRIGHT" in the patch.
> 
> >   % courier --version
> >   Courier 0.45.4.20040411 Copyright 1999-2004 Double Precision, Inc.
> 
> THAT is PERFECT.
> Now that patch needs to be applied to most anything that a user would
> run.  One of these days I'll look into adding a --help/-h/-? option as
> well.

Well, the initial point of my request was how to determine the Courier
version programmatically.  I need this to automatically decide which
features of Courier are available, i.e. which ones I can depend on.

Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 'imapd --version' generates useful output.  That's the imapd in bin,
> not in sbin.

| io:~> /usr/bin/imapd --version
| Courier 0.45.4 (Courier-IMAP 3.0.3)/i686-pc-linux-gnu/Tue Apr  6 14:24:50 CEST 2004

"0.45.4" is about as precise a version number as is useful for the
purpose.  "0.45" definitely is too imprecise.  "0.45.4.20040411" would be
fine, but I don't think the extra precision is needed for programmatically
deciding which Courier features are available.

Besides, I think the "--version" behavior should, for all intents and
purposes, be consistent between `imapd` and `courier`.



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