On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:43:33 +0900 Jérôme Pinot <ngc...@gmail.com> said:
great.. but how do you EXTRACT this info then from the lib? :) it's a lib.. it can't execute on its own... and printfing such strings on every fn call is just anti-social :) > Hi, > > During the Enlightenment French League^W^W dinner, we had this idea of > having a configure option for the EFL to setup a string identifying the > compiler/maintainer/distribution of the build. Several projects use this > kind of string, for instance TexLive, LibreOffice or POV-Ray. It can be > use to find quickly the maintainer, to generate automatic bug reports > and most important, blame someone else (not you, no, really). > > There are several way to accomplish this during configuration: > > POV-Ray uses the COMPILED_BY="Main Tainer <f...@bar.org>" environment > variable > > TexLive uses --with-banner-add="Tex Live 2013/MyDistro Main Tainer > <f...@bar.org>" > > LibreOffice uses several options: > --with-distro="MyDistro" > --with-vendor="Main Tainer <f...@bar.org>" > --with-build-version="42" > > It seems to me that the LibreOffice options are better. > > What do you think about this? > > -- > Jérôme Pinot > http://ngc891.blogdns.net/ -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
