rexx -v already includes the information "Internal Test Version" for debug builds. Including it there would be much preferred over exposing it as a language feature. We don't do undocument language features.
Rick On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 8:19 AM Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> wrote: > On 29.11.2021 13:59, Rick McGuire wrote: > > I don't think it's a good idea to have a language feature that is so > tightly coupled to the tool used to build the interpreter. Tools change, > but language features are forever. Also, using the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE for the > value makes it almost impossible to document the return values, since with > CMAKE, many different build types are possible. > > Hmm, I see your point. > > How about making it an undocumented feature that is only available when > the build type/config is not "release" (rather a developer's build). And > instead of naming it "config", naming the method CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to make > it unmistakeingly clear that this is development tool (CMake) specific. > > ---rony > > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:44 AM Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> > wrote: > >> In the past days I have been creating and testing various versions of >> ooRexx on various systems and >> have been using .RexxInfo to check about revisions and bitnesses. >> >> Unfortunately, .RexxInfo does not have a method "config" that would >> return "release", "debug" or >> "relwithdebinfo", depending on how ooRexx was configured at compilation >> time which sometimes is >> important to know when debugging and analyzing the behaviour and/or >> results. >> >> Looking at the RexxInfo code it should be possible to have that >> information made available. >> >> If you think this might be a good idea I would volunteer to implement it, >> using CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE in >> lowercase. >> >> What do you think? >> >> ---rony > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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