>>Now it simply says "6.2b1 - trunk".  It would be useful if it
>> could report the date that the nightly was built instead, so we have
>> something better to report on.
>
>Build number is actually far more accurate than date, if it can be fixed to 
>work
>reliably.  Date wouldn't be applicable for those users not downloading an
>actual  build, and there are often several 'build numbers' skipped between
>nightly builds; they actually correspond to the subversion change number.

I think you misunderstood what I was saying ;-)  The nightly SlimServer that I 
installed a couple of days ago is only reporting "6.2b1 - trunk" - my point was 
that there wasn't a build number or date to report on.  Also, the one before 
that was reporting 3774, which was apparently wrong for the version I had 
installed.  Maybe there was an installation problem, as I usually only install 
over the top, rather than uinstall the previous first.

As I wasn't trusting the build version, I was reporting the datestamp in the 
nightly.  After installing a few nightlies, I may get confused which nightly I 
have actually got installed, so I think it would be nice to have both the 
nightly release date and build number reported.

After all, a build number doesn't mean much to end users (good for the 
developers), whereas the date is useful to the user as a check that the build 
has installed correctly.

Phil
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