Re: GNOME Desktop Version String

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 12:01, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Yeah,
> I didn't want to make it sound that just Sun wanted this and hence I was
> told to make it so ;)

Oh, don't worry )

> 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...

It would be really nice if Sun would say exactly what they are going to
put in. It would be much more useful if we (by which I mean everyone
packaging GNOME, including Ximian, Sun, RH, GNOME Packaging Project,
etc.) could agree on an extensible standard so that the tools could all
use this in a coordinated manner that is useful to the entire community
and not just Sun.

Luis

> 			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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