hi john, > I've been building Scribus from the high watermark of SVN (1.5) and > need to determine what version my currently running edition is from. > Using Help-About does not provide me the Subversion version and gives > me a date of "1 August 2012" when my system notes I built it 18:33:17 > 09/10/12 PDT. > > Is the Subversion version which Scribus is built from ascertainable > from a running instance? If not, is there a file is the staged tree > that might reflect it? I built Scribus using Gentoo's portage > facility which basically pulls whatever is HEAD at the time I > update. In this case, I think I last successfully built on 18:33:17 > 09/10/12 PDT. I'm going to go look at the Subversion repository (I > hope there is a websvn (http://websvn.tigris.org/) interface) and > determine what version was HEAD around that time. > > It seems to me having a Subversion version and date included in the > About box might be helpful.
this has been discussed a few times already, but (afaik) nobody brought a usable solution. another useful feature, would be to add the git branch, for the ones who compile from gif. the main question is: how can we hack the cmake scripts to automatically add such information? is there anybody on this list with the knowledge needed to do it? have a nice day a.l.e
