[myhdl-list] suggestion: version number printout

[George P. <ge...@ga...>]

Jan,
   
    I think it would be useful to have MyHDL print its version number 
every time it runs. It could prevent considerable confusion and  
frustration. For example, I just discovered that I was actually using 
0.5c1 and not 0.5.1 like I thought! But to find this out I had to 
manually check:

import myhdl
print myhdl.__version__

    Also, as my library of MyHDL modules grows along with MyHDL itself, 
some modules may require a newer version of MyHDL than others. I think 
it would nice to be able to enforce this, and save the user from the 
ensuing flood of hard-to-read Python tracebacks.

I like how PyGTK provides a method to require a particular version of 
gtk be available:

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk

Regards,
George