Re: GNOME Desktop Version String

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

Yeah, that's the thing...it really doesn't make much sense when you've
got people updating their system on a regular basis and getting the
latest and greatest packages...
But for someone who gets *just* the releases, then this could prove
useful...I guess we just need to have a think about how it could be
useful.

			See ya,
				Glynn ;)

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 16:43, Luis Villa wrote:
> 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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