Re: [TCLCORE] win/nmakehelp.c : Find version "-V" should start after search string

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

2012/9/19 Harald Oehlmann <har...@el...>

> win/Makefile.vc uses the c helper application win/nmakehelp.c for
> different tasks.
> One task is to extract a version in the tcl version format from a file:
>
> nmakehelp.exe <file> <tag>
>
> The tag start position is searched in the file.
> If found, from this starting position, bytes are read until the next
> number. Then, all bytes are return until a non [0-9.ab] byte is found.
>
> Question:
> Is this a Bug or a Feature ?
>

A bug, in my view.


>
> Would it be intelligent to search from the end of the found tag ?
> Are there any use cases to search from the start of the tag ?
>


My suggestion: just go ahead and change it!

Regards,
        Jan Nijtmans