https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417197
Bug ID: 417197 Summary: Allow more fine-tuning of --version (or adding new options) Product: frameworks-kdelibs4support Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: general Assignee: kdelibs-b...@kde.org Reporter: sheve...@gmail.com Target Milestone: --- This is a slight feature request, or rather, a change. As-is situation: We can usek "kf5-config --version" to find out the version of KDE5. On my system, this command produces these results: "QStandardPaths: wrong ownership on runtime directory /home/Temp, 99 instead of 0 QStandardPaths: wrong ownership on runtime directory /home/Temp, 99 instead of 0 QStandardPaths: wrong ownership on runtime directory /home/Temp, 99 instead of 0 Qt: 5.14.0 KDE Frameworks: 5.66.0 kf5-config: 1.0" So 6 lines, split at a newline each. The first three can be ignored, although in many cases I have no need for it to tell me that there is a "wrong" ownership - it is not really relevant to me, but this is besides the point. The problem I have is that the --version flag returns 3 results. Most of the time, though, I am only interested in the second line aka KDE Frameworks. I use this in a ruby script to find out the version of programs on the local computer system in general. I do NOT suggest to change the current default - if people like it and rely on it, that is fine. What I do, however had, suggest is to fine-tune the above, and in particular allow a new commandline flag that will only return the version string ode KDE Frameworks, such as: "kf5-config --kde-frameworks-version" "kf5-config --kdeframeworks-version" "kf5-config --frameworks-version" ^^^ or something like this, and the returned string be: 5.66.0 To reduce downstream processing. It is not a big deal because I can adapt the ruby code either way, but a minor problem is that querying via kf5-config takes a little time; it is a bit slower than, say, "grep --version". So one goal of this is to make the above a bit faster, since I would not need to determine the qt-version or anything else. (Perhaps this may be the wrong application to file for, but which other commandline variant can tell us the version of KDE on the computer system? I am fine with an approximation by the way, no need to query all components from the commandline; or I just write a ruby script that does so, but right now I am more focused on a simple one-version solution). Thanks for reading and considering - it has a very low priority so I added it to the wishlist. On the other hand, I believe this is not so difficult to add. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.