The download page shows the Revision Number (r-number) of dev snapshots. That is how they can be known. This reflects the state of the SVN repository when the developer snapshot was built.
If you use the r-number, e.g., "r1243392" in a bug report, along with the platform and particular snapshot type (full set, language pack, SDK, etc.) it will be understood which snapshot exhibits/confirms the defect. Alternatively, simply use the full URL of the download. That has complete information built into it. That is the most reliable identifier at this time. There are difficulties getting this all into the code base the way NoOp requests so the previous OOo-dev milestone is being used until that is all tidied up. (These *really* are developer snapshots. They are not pre-releases, not even release candidates. These are periodic builds that confirm the code being worked on still builds and are available for whatever testing folks decide to provide. The process will be improved in stages. Having the About page be selectable for copy and paste is a great bug to report if it is not already in the Bugzilla. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: NoOp [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 19:01 To: [email protected] Subject: AOO Dev versions - About + copy & paste In another thread Andrea Pescetti was kind enough to provide a link to the AOO dev versions: > Subject: Re: Older OpenOffice.org releases > On 16/02/2012 Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: >> > I would also gladly test prerelease versions of >> > Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 to see if the bug is still there. > Just in case you don't know where to find them... Pre-releases (dev > snapshots, actually) are available at http://s.apache.org/l8 and are > usually updated on Mondays-Tuesdays and announced on the -dev list. They > can be installed without replacing your existing installation. > > Regards, > Andrea. So I head over to the link and download: <http://people.apache.org/~arielch/packages/r1243392/linux_x86/OOo-Dev_OOO340m1_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz> I've just installed over my earlier OOo-Dev version & nothing has broken (yet). However, if I wish to copy and paste the version information from 'Help|About OOo-dev' (should be changed to 'About AOO-dev) I cannot do this. Instead I need to manually type the information: OOo-dev 3.4.0 OOO340m1 (Build:9586) 2012-02-13 09:12:00 (Mon, 13 Feb 2012) - Rev. 1243392 Or... because I know where to find it, I try: $ cat /opt/ooo-dev3/program/versionrc [Version] AllLanguages=en-US buildid=340m1(Build:9586) ExtensionUpdateURL=http://updateexte.services.openoffice.org/ExtensionUpdateService/check.Update OOOBaseVersion=3.4 ProductBuildid=9586 ProductMajor=340 ProductMinor=1 ProductSource=OOO340 UpdateID=OOo-dev_3_en-US UpdateURL= UpdateUserAgent=<PRODUCT> (${buildid}; ${_OS}; ${_ARCH}; BundledLanguages=${AllLanguages}) Note that the "2012-02-13 09:12:00 (Mon, 13 Feb 2012) - Rev. 1243392" isn't included there... so where exactly is it? Please at least provide the ability to copy & paste the information from 'Help|About OOo-dev' so that it is easy to report the exact(?) version. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
