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Subject: Re: Application version numbers
From: Hans Meine <hans_meine () gmx ! net>
Date: 2009-01-22 8:56:35
Message-ID: 200901220956.37116.hans_meine () gmx ! net
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On Thursday 22 January 2009 05:49:41 John Tapsell wrote:
> Is it possible to have an application version just simply be the
> version number of KDE?
I understand that application authors want to have their own versions, but..
> The version numbers tend to be confusing. For example, kate is
> released with each KDE release. It follows the KDE releases exactly,
> so shouldn't the kate version be simply the KDE release version?
..that is indeed an annoying situation, I 100% agree.
Now what about the following: Currently, the about dialog says e.g.:
KMail
Version 1.10.4
Using KDE 4.1.4 (KDE 4.1.4)
Hmm, now that I see the duplication, I get the feeling that we're partway
there.. what I wanted to propose is sth. like:
KMail
Version 1.10.4 (from KDE 4.1.4)
Using KDE 4.1.4
Additionally, I thought it was a good idea to include the package name (e.g.
"from kdepim-4.1.4"), but that may be too technical? (Plus I am running
Gentoo with the split ebuilds.. ;-) )
Closely related features would be
1) indicating which distro package the application comes from
2) checking for/indicating the most recent stable release
3) checking for the available distro package versions (see 1)
But these are a lot more complex problems of course (except maybe 2, which
seems quite feasible). Nevertheless, it would be nice if KDE delivered some
infrastructure for distributions to implement 1 or even 3.
Have a nice day,
Hans
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