On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2012 um 08:23:04, schrieb Scott Kostyshak > <skost...@lyx.org> > >> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> >> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> >> > wrote: > >> >> I thought the idea was to get better bug reports from users. But it > >> >> seems that the extra information isn't that useful for bug reports > >> > > >> >> because most users install from binaries (for which we already know > >> >> the build information). > >> >> > >> > Not necessarily. There are a myriad Linux distributions and for each > >> > bug report the user/devel are unlikely to check the packaging habits > >> > of the given distro. > >> > >> Good point. But if someone is on Linux they are probably comfortable > >> doing --version. That's not true for everyone though. I know people > >> who use Linux and are still terrified by the terminal. > > > > If I do "lyx --version", I get the time stamp > > LyX 2.1.0dev (2011-04-29) > > Built on Oct 9 2012, 22:49:51 > > CMake Build > > > > This is misleading, since it is not so important when it was built, as it > were to know > > the timestamp of the source. "2011-04-29" does not seem very helpful.
I agree. > > > > The date is taken from configure.ac:5 > > AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2011-04-29"]) > > > >> Scott > >> > >> > My 00.02€ > >> > Liviu > > > > Kornel
