On Fre, 2017-07-14 at 21:56 +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > On 07/13/2017 05:35 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > > Hey all > > > > I couldn't find any reliable way to identify a compiled Pd binary. > > The > > only info I have is the creation date. > > > > Wouldn't it be cool for developers if Pd would display its build > > date > to the contrary. > most of the time build dates have little meaning, and turn out to > create > confusion. > Pd-0.38-3 should by all means behave the same, regardless of whether > it > was compiled tonight, or 10 years ago
I see your point, but I still find it helpful to know when _I_ last compiled Pd. > apart from that: Pd already displays that information, both with the > "-version" and the "-verbose" flags (but in both cases, only on > stdout). Yeah, totally. Can't tell anymore why I missed that. Thanks and sorry for the noise. > > somewhere and possible even the version (shortened commit hash)? > > > that's much more meaningful, but also much harder to get for all > supported platforms. I see. Roman
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