Yay! I even get the bitness - "7.2.42 windows_intelx86" That could be useful later. Thanks.
>________________________________ > From: Rom Walton <[email protected]> >To: Richard Haselgrove <[email protected]>; BOINC Dev MailingList ><[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2014, 18:20 >Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: discovery installed version of BOINC > > >I will go ahead and modify the installer to put the version into the registry. > >You can also execute: >boinc --version > >That will return the version number and platform of the installed client. > >All the client software should be using the same version number. > >----- Rom > >-----Original Message----- >From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Richard Haselgrove >Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 12:42 PM >To: BOINC Dev MailingList >Subject: [boinc_dev] Feature request: discovery installed version of BOINC > >My request is for the Windows operating system, but it may be applicable to >other OSs as well. > >Context: I am writing an updated installation program to deliver anonymous >platform applications to volunteers' BOINC installations. Each time we release >an updated version, we observe something of the order of 30,000 user downloads >- we suspect the number of hosts involved is significantly higher, and we >don't track all mirror site download numbers. > >I am being pressured to provide selective installation on the basis of the >BOINC version and mode (service/user) encountered. I can access program and >data locations by querying the registry for INSTALLDIR and DATADIR >respectively, and I can also check for the presence of a BOINC service >(whether it is running or stopped). > >If BOINC is running, I could query the client with an RPC, or - less >elegantly, but simpler - pipe the response to a boinccmd -V into a file and >parse that. But where is the version number of a stopped instance? > >For the future, could it be added to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space >Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup by your installer, please? > >And if anybody could answer the 'stopped instance' question in the near >future, I'd be grateful. > >[later: boinccmd reports: > >C:\BOINC>boinccmd -V >boinccmd, built from BOINC 7.2.42 > >Is that really the running client version, as the documentations says, or its >own build number, as printed?] _______________________________________________ >boinc_dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >(near bottom of page) enter your email address. >_______________________________________________ >boinc_dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >(near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
