On Nov 13, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
That works by doing fairly loose pattern matching. Accessing it through a function is much cleaner and reliable.
If the software is completely unworkable, though, it's still nice to be able to pull some sort of version information out of individual binaries.
This was especially important at my last employer, where the clients got whatever the "current build" was of the software (yeah, *shudder*), so two installs were technically different releases, even if only a few binaries were different. Lots of bugs were figured out because they could get specific version information from every binary in the software, even if it would segfault on startup.
Now, I think, we're kicking a dead horse. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
