Re: Version discovery...

[stefan]

Citát Adam Fedor <address@hidden>:

> 
> On Oct 13, 2004, at 11:10 PM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I was recently discussing this on IRC with Alex P, and he brought up 
> > something
> > I've been thinking about for a while....
> >
> > Is there currently a way to discover the version of gui or base an 
> > application
> > is running on?
> >
> > Some applications, Gorm in particular, are sensitive to this.  I would 
> > like to
> > make enhancements such that it will not start and will warn the user 
> > if a
> > minimum version of the libraries are not present.
> >
> >
> There's a string 'gnustep_base_version' defined in the library which 
> isn't marked static, so theoretically an application could have access 
> to that, but there probably ought to be a better way.
> 
> 

Can we have some number version, so it can be compared by #if ? Something like:

#degfine GNUSTEP_BASE_VERSION 110

I would suggest to use format 100*major + minor. It would ignore patch/subminor
number as there are usualy incompatibilities between minor releases for non-cvs
users. Majority of CVS users have up-to date sources anyway and they are often
aware of possible incompatibilities.

Similar would be for GNUSTEP_GUI_VERSION and probably GNUSTEP_VERSION.

Stefan