Depending on where you are going to put the version information, updating
the date is easy. Just add "$Date$" to the file inside the string that
you want to display and everytime this file is changed and check into cvs
the string will be updated. The catch is that the file has to be touched
for the string to be updated. Also, the $Date$ string expands to
$Date: 1999/06/01 08:34:43 $ which might not be the most desirable format.
If you want to generate the about information everytime a commit is
executed (more reliable than the previous suggestion) then cvs can call a
script to generate the information. This is easy if cvs is only being
used for one project and only slightly more difficult if cvs is being used
for multiple projects in one root.
Hope this helps.
Mike
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Rob Walker wrote:
>
> Here are my patches for command line option --version. I first copied
> the gnome 'about' box information.
>
> I don't rightly know the proper naming convention. I would much
> rather have a file included somewhere (for both this and the 'about'
> box), or a check somewhere done so that the version code could say
> "version: gnome cvs 19991112" or something like that.
>
> If it were to be a date for the cvs versions, how to keep the string
> up-to-date? A cron job on the cvs server? My entire reason for
> asking for this feature was so I could report the version with my bug
> reports. I actually like the idea of a cron job on the cvs server, or
> something like that.
>
> I had no idea what to put in for the authors string, so I left it out.
> In the gnome version, src/gnome/window-main.c, line 380,
> gnc_ui_about_cb() is pretty straightforward. I remembered the motif
> version, and tried to find the about box there. After a bit more
> work, I found Docs/En/xacc-about.html. That is where most of the text
> came from. I would like to see this made more right, and I guess it
> should go into a message file which has all the different languages
> supported. I checked the --version output of xemacs, Eterm and bash,
> and they were all kinds of different. :-(
>
> One warning. I know _nothing_ about scheme. All I know is that it
> kind of resembles my 70k of xemacs startup files. :-)
>
> rob
>
>
> *** src/scm/command-line.scm.orig Mon Nov 22 20:51:04 1999
> --- src/scm/command-line.scm Mon Nov 22 21:40:02 1999
> ***************
> *** 7,12 ****
> --- 7,17 ----
> (list
>
> (cons
> + "version"
> + (cons 'boolean
> + (lambda (val)
> + (gnc:config-var-value-set! gnc:*arg-show-version* #f val))))
> + (cons
> "usage"
> (cons 'boolean
> (lambda (val)
> ***************
> *** 91,96 ****
> --- 96,104 ----
> (define (gnc:cmd-line-get-string-arg args)
> (gnc:debug "got string arg returning " (car args) " and " (cdr args))
> (list (car args) (cdr args)))
> +
> + (define (gnc:prefs-show-version)
> + (display "GnuCash 1.3 development version") (newline))
>
> (define (gnc:prefs-show-usage)
> (display "usage: gnucash [ option ... ] [ datafile ]") (newline))
>
>
> *** src/scm/main.scm.orig Mon Nov 22 20:51:15 1999
> --- src/scm/main.scm Mon Nov 22 21:02:58 1999
> ***************
> *** 21,26 ****
> --- 21,31 ----
>
> (gnc:hook-run-danglers gnc:*startup-hook*)
>
> + (if (gnc:config-var-value-get gnc:*arg-show-version*)
> + (begin
> + (gnc:prefs-show-version)
> + (gnc:shutdown 0)))
> +
> (if (or (gnc:config-var-value-get gnc:*arg-show-usage*)
> (gnc:config-var-value-get gnc:*arg-show-help*))
> (begin
>
>
> *** src/scm/prefs.scm.orig Mon Nov 22 18:11:12 1999
> --- src/scm/prefs.scm Mon Nov 22 20:55:38 1999
> ***************
> *** 231,236 ****
> --- 231,243 ----
> "h" "Show the account balance column in the account tree." #t))
>
>
> + (define gnc:*arg-show-version*
> + (gnc:make-config-var
> + "Show version."
> + (lambda (var value) (if (boolean? value) (list value) #f))
> + eq?
> + #f))
> +
> (define gnc:*arg-show-usage*
> (gnc:make-config-var
> "Generate an argument summary."
>
>
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