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

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Andrew Dalke <da...@da...> wrote:
> 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.

ha... if only I could do metaphorical releases.

Improving the release process is on my list of things that ought to be
done. The cmake-based build system should make that easier, but it's
still going to take some time.

>> 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.

I just checked in the change.

-greg