Re: how to get a gnome library version with code?

[Neo Liu <Neo Liu Sun COM>]

great thanks for all reply.

Josselin's hit my point. thanks again.

ln
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 02 mars 2007 à 14:24 +0800, Neo Liu a écrit :
>   
> > gurus,
> >
> > how can I get a library version in code? is there a general way? and if 
> > not, is there a way to get atk/at-spi library version?
> >     
>
> There is no generic way to do this, but a number of libraries provide
> interfaces to their version. With ATK, it is atk_get_toolkit_version,
> and with at-spi it is AccessibleApplication_getVersion.
>
> However you should be very careful with what you do with such string
> versions, as they can't be expected to carry meaningful information
> about the library's features.
>
> For example, Eclipse has a workaround for a bug found in some GTK+
> versions, and checks for the GTK+ version to know whether it should use
> the workaround. When the GTK+ fix was backported, Eclipse started to
> fail horribly.
>
> Cheers,
>