It depends on how it is built. Currently the triplet version number is manually added by packagers. If you build from the tars you will get no-bzr or something like that. If you build from a bzr repo you will get a bzr revno, if you build from a git repo, you will get a bzr and git hash.
2016-03-01 13:43 GMT+01:00 Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.eman...@gmail.com>: > Why doesn't the version in the about dialog actually give the versions that > are announced e.g. 4.0.2? > > On 1 March 2016 at 10:19, Simon Wells <swel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Removed the menu option from help in this version of the patch. >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Simon Wells <swel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Attached is a patch that modifies a few things in the About dialog, a >> > screenshot with old and new is also attached >> > >> > It removes the horizontal rule which is redundant due to the auinotebook >> > Adds Copy Version Info to the about box which i think is a better >> > place for it than in the help menu esspecially on OSX where about >> > isn't even in the help menu (I haven't removed the menu items yet am >> > interested to hear other peoples thoughts on whether it is used often >> > enough to keep it in the main menu bar as well) due to this the code >> > is currently in 2 places. >> > I have also changed the about dialog (and version info from the about >> > box) change to use the currently running version of wxwidgets rather >> > than the version that kicad was built with unfortunately this is not >> > possible with boost >> > >> > Simon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp