Re: [Rdkit-discuss] any want to get the current RDKit version?

[Andrew D. <da...@da...>]

On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Greg Landrum wrote:
> Yeah, that's an oversight. I'll add the function "version()" to
> $RDBASE/rdkit/__init__.py for the release:
> [1]>>> import rdkit
> 
> [2]>>> rdkit.version()
> Out[2] 'Q42009_1'

Thanks. I'll add that to my code. Done.

> Now I just need to remember to update that for each release...

Add it to the "HowToReleaseRDKit.txt" file? Metaphorically speaking.

> A question: I'm tempted to rearrange that output to the somewhat less
> human readable, but correctly sortable "2009Q4_1". What do you think?

I think I live in Sweden, where many things are dated YYYY-MM-DD
and this would be better. I think having the quarter number and the
year not next to each other is nice. So I would do it.

However, nothing I do is affected by the data ordering in the string.


What would be affected is distutils code. There are two versioning
styles it supports, Loose and Strict.

  http://pydoc.org/2.5.1/distutils.version.html

The RDKit number is "Loose", and those are sorted lexically.

Another thing which is sorted is directory listings.

For those reasons I would also switch to lexical ordering.


				Andrew
				da...@da...