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?] _______________________________________________
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