It's possible to add the information in a version-file somewhere, and write this version-file with the make scripts.
2012/11/11 ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> > hi john, > > > I've been building Scribus from the high watermark of SVN (1.5) and > > need to determine what version my currently running edition is from. > > Using Help-About does not provide me the Subversion version and gives > > me a date of "1 August 2012" when my system notes I built it 18:33:17 > > 09/10/12 PDT. > > > > Is the Subversion version which Scribus is built from ascertainable > > from a running instance? If not, is there a file is the staged tree > > that might reflect it? I built Scribus using Gentoo's portage > > facility which basically pulls whatever is HEAD at the time I > > update. In this case, I think I last successfully built on 18:33:17 > > 09/10/12 PDT. I'm going to go look at the Subversion repository (I > > hope there is a websvn (http://websvn.tigris.org/) interface) and > > determine what version was HEAD around that time. > > > > It seems to me having a Subversion version and date included in the > > About box might be helpful. > > this has been discussed a few times already, but (afaik) nobody brought > a usable solution. > > another useful feature, would be to add the git branch, for the ones > who compile from gif. > > the main question is: how can we hack the cmake scripts to > automatically add such information? > > is there anybody on this list with the knowledge needed to do it? > > have a nice day > a.l.e > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20121111/8e19636b/attachment.html>
