Re: GNOME Desktop Version String
- From: Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>
- To: Luis Villa <louie ximian com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME Desktop Version String
- Date: 06 Mar 2002 17:01:10 +0000
Yeah,
I didn't want to make it sound that just Sun wanted this and hence I was
told to make it so ;)
For the moment, I just but in a very lame '2.0', but I know that Sun
will be patching locally to include some more detailed information as
you mentioned below which would be used in programs [as you mentioned]
like bug-buddy, gnome-about, gnome system info etc...
See ya,
Glynn ;)
> I think it could be very useful, for a number of reasons- for example,
> bug-buddy could grab it, and it would be easy to ask newbies who file
> bugs 'tell me what version of gnome you have installed.'
>
> The trick is that '1.4' or '2.0' by themselves are not of much use.
> Perhaps this could be a set of values of some type?
>
> Like:
> *Version- could be general, like 1.4, 2.0, etc.
> *Vendor- Ximian, Red Hat, GNOME Packaging Project, Sun, etc.
> *'Built on date'- not necessarily a build date, but a 'when released to
> the world' type date, so that bug people have at least a rough estimate
> of when it was built and what type of patches might be or not be in. For
> vendors with updating stuff (like, say, if RH does a patch release of
> major components, or Red Carpet updates key components) we could touch
> this and update it.
>
> I'm sure other fields could be useful here, but these are the things I'm
> thinking of off the top of my head.
> Luis
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