On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Peter Münster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 03 2008, luigi scarso wrote:
>
>> > 1. for my linux box, I just grabbed the linux tarball, but the
>> > binaries in there still declare they're version 1.003. Is that an
>> > oversight, or are those indeed old binaries (and you forgot to pack
>> > the new ones? :-)
>>
>> # mpost
>> This is MetaPost, Version 1.004 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>
> That means some redundancy in the code: the version number is maintained at
> two places ("mpost" and "mpost --version").
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/luatex/metapost-1.004# grep -r 1.004 src
src/texk/web2c/mp.web:@d banner=='This is MetaPost, Version 1.004'
{printed when \MP\ starts}
src/texk/web2c/mp.web:@d metapost_version=="1.004"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/luatex/metapost-1.004# grep -r 1.003 src
src/texk/web2c/lib/texmfmp.c:#define BANNER "This is MetaPost, Version 1.003"
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