Hi Bill, Thank you for all that you do for WSJT-X development. Because of your contributions, tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of amateur radio operators enjoy operating digital modes with other amateur radio operators around the globe.
That said, under Linux (and probably also for Mac and Windows), using the command line, when I type in "wsjtx --version", a GUI dialog is displayed with the WSJT-X version, but that doesn't help a shell script trying to get the WSJT-X version programmatically. I wrote an update script for Linux, and while it could in theory check the version on the website and check the installed version and then determine whether to download the newer version (or not), it is hampered by this limitation. I did discover that there is a version number stored in $HOME/.config/WSJT-X.ini, but that is only a preference setting, and does not guarantee the version installed. Likewise, under $HOME/.local/share/WSJT-X/logs/wsjtx_syslog_YYYY-MM.log the program version is logged upon application startup, but once again, that's not a guarantee of installed version. *May I please request that a) "wsjtx --version" return version string to stdout and b) the operation is non-blocking?* *While I'm at it, may I please additionally request that c) wsjtx --help also output to stdout ?* Is there an issue tracker for WSJT-X? I'd be happy to enter these concerns into there directly. I went to SourceForge and didn't see any mechanism for this. Thanks and 73, -- Dave Slotter, W3DJS <https://www.qrz.com/db/W3DJS>
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