Re: GNOME Desktop Version String

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

So, umm... what is a gnome desktop version, exactly? What would, say,
the string/number for what Ximian users have right now read? What should
it read if they update 1/2 of their gnome packages tomorrow, but, say,
libgnome is not in the set of updates? How would this differ from
someone who got the latest 1.4 from ftp.gnome.org? Would it differ at
all?

I'm all in favor of having some kind of across-the-entire-release
versioning scheme but at the moment it seems like we* don't have much
clue what such a version would mean or indicate. This, I think, makes
inserting such a thing into gnome-about and the like a little premature,
doesn't it?

Luis

*OK, /maybe/ just me... but I don't think I'm the only one.


On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 11:32, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Heya,
> I've just added a version string to the gnome-desktop cvs module on the
> advice of John here. I really think it's a good idea, and could act as a
> good way to identify what GNOME release you have. I know that certainly
> Sun would find such a string useful, and I figure that others will as
> well. Currently it is just a number, which could be turned into a
> translatable string if people thought it was worthwhile enough. 
> 
> It installs into $(prefix)/share/gnome-about/gnome-version as I figure
> it's probably a good idea to get this into the GNOME About dialog
> sometime soon. In any case, it's not doing any harm and could prove to
> be useful, so it's really just a mail to let you know [and to prompt
> discussion about how better it could be utilized].
> 
> 			See ya,
> 				Glynn ;)
> 
> 
> 
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