On Mar 11, 2008, at 6:27 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > Roman Haefeli wrote: >> yo.... >> >> this might sound silly (and you guys most likely don't care, what >> version _i_ have installed). however, the 'menu -> help -> About Pd' >> tells me: >> >> Pd version 0.40.3 > > for magical reasons this is usually correct. > >> >> when i load [version] from hcs, it gives me: >> >> 0 41 0 test06 Dec 7 2007 03:24:18 > > version is actually broken in the implementation, as it reports the > version of Pd the object was _compiled_ against, not the one it is > running in. > > this is done because it is easy to find out the version of pd at > compile > time, but not so easy at runtime. > > the likely argument is, that you should run pd-extended and use the > version in there, which will (hopefully) be compiled against the same > version as it is running in.
[version] is a quick hack. Ideally it would get the version of the running Pd. I suppose there could be a function in Pd that returned the version. Patches welcome :) .hc > > >> >> when i load hexloader, which i just compiled, i get: >> >> hex loader $Revision: 1.5 $ >> written by IOhannes m zm�nig, IEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> compiled on Mar 11 2008 at 11:03:15 >> compiled against Pd version 0.40.3. > > again, this version-number tells you only the version of Pd the > hexloader was compiled against. it has nothing to do with the > version of > Pd you are actually running. > >> >> aaah, and now i realized, that there is simply 'pd -version', >> which also >> gives me: >> >> Pd version 0.40-3 >> compiled 06:47:02 Nov 28 2007 > > this is the one that can be trusted most. > > > fmgas.dr > IOhannes > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
