On Friday 16 November 2007 10:28:25 am Xavier Gnata wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting matplotlib/__init__.py :
>
> def checkdep_ghostscript():
> try:
> if sys.platform == 'win32':
> command = 'gswin32c -v'
> else:
> command = 'gs -v'
> stdin, stdout = os.popen4(command)
> line = stdout.readlines()[0]
> v = line.split()[2]
> vtest = '.'.join(v.split('.')[:2]) # deal with version numbers
> like '7.07.1'
> float(vtest)
> return vtest
> except (IndexError, ValueError):
> return None
>
> It fails on debian sid because 'gs -v' returns "GPL Ghostscript SVN
> PRE-RELEASE 8.61 (2007-08-02)\n"
>
> Anyway, the parser will be ugly because it has to deal with version
> numbers like '7.07.1'.
> Should I propose a trivial patch to get thinks working on debian sid ?
>
> Xavier
> ps :Why is there no standard way (like -v or --version) on *unix to get
> the version *number*?? Only the version number. Why :(
This was fixed a while back in svn, but thanks for the report. It turns out
that --version does return only the version number.
Darren
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