Re: commit 9d0f14

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Mojca Miklavec <moj...@gm...> writes:

> My suggestion would be to:
> (a) Check if you are building from git and if so, run "git describe"
> to determine the version. That's probably by far the best way to
> determine the version.
>
> (b) When not building from git, you would usually build from a
> released tarball which should necessarily have the version written
> somewhere anyway and then you know which version that is exactly.

Furthermore, this proposal gives you what you actually want: some sort
of user-visible indication of the version they're running that they can
include in bug reports. A date does not do this.