On Friday 28 April 2006 07:58, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 19:51 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Thursday 27 April 2006 19:29, Gerrit Jasper wrote: > > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > >I asked this as part of another thread and did not get a clear > > > > answer, so I'm hoping asking it as a specific thread will help. > > > > > > > >I am installing my own application on computers and it needs OOo > > > > to run. I want to be able to check the version of OOo on that > > > > system if it exists. On Linux, that's easy: I run "soffice > > > > -help" and it prints to the console (so I can intercept it) a > > > > help message and I can read the version. On Windows it opens a > > > > Window and prints nothing to the console. I finally found > > > > build numbers in sversion.rc and a similar .ini file on > > > > Windows. There's just one problem... > > > > > > > >Is there a list somewhere of build numbers and their > > > > corresponding version numbers? For example, what build (or > > > > builds) was version 1.0, or any other versions up to 2.0.2? > > > > Isn't there a list somewhere I can use to go through and match > > > > up build numbers with version numbers? > > > > > > > >Thanks for any help on this. > > > > > > > >Hal > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >---- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, > > > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Hal, > > > > > > I don't know anything about the inner workings of Windows but I > > > suppose there is some analogy > > > with OOo on Linux. Can you get the dates of files on your > > > customer's machines? > > > > I was so narrowly focused on version numbers that it never occurred > > to me to check dates. Thanks for the suggestion and examples. > > I'll look into it. > > > > Right now, after Laurent's e-mail, I'm looking over build numbers. > > > > Thanks for the new direction -- it hadn't even occurred to me. > > > > Hal > > Possibly a dumb question but isn't this info kept in > <path_to>/openoffice2.0/program/versionrc or its equivalent on all > platforms? Seems to me that parsing this file would be a good source > of the data. If I am missing the point feel free to ignore this > message.
Build numbers are and that's what I was looking at. I didn't realize dates as well, since, again, I was focused on version numbers. Right now I'm just using info from Laurent's chart. As long as the build number starts with 680, I'm okay and it's version 2.0.x. Hal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
