Hey all
I couldn't find any reliable way to identify a compiled Pd binary. The only info I have is the creation date.
Wouldn't it be cool for developers if Pd would display its build date somewhere and possible even the version (shortened commit hash)?
It happened to me that I was using an half-year old Pd version without noticing, because the installation path was not part of the PATH environment variable.
Roman
On 07/13/2017 05:35 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
Hey all
I couldn't find any reliable way to identify a compiled Pd binary. The only info I have is the creation date.
Wouldn't it be cool for developers if Pd would display its build date
to the contrary. most of the time build dates have little meaning, and turn out to create confusion. Pd-0.38-3 should by all means behave the same, regardless of whether it was compiled tonight, or 10 years ago.
apart from that: Pd already displays that information, both with the "-version" and the "-verbose" flags (but in both cases, only on stdout).
somewhere and possible even the version (shortened commit hash)?
that's much more meaningful, but also much harder to get for all supported platforms.
mdas IOhannes
On Fre, 2017-07-14 at 21:56 +0200, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 07/13/2017 05:35 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
Hey all
I couldn't find any reliable way to identify a compiled Pd binary. The only info I have is the creation date.
Wouldn't it be cool for developers if Pd would display its build date
to the contrary. most of the time build dates have little meaning, and turn out to create confusion. Pd-0.38-3 should by all means behave the same, regardless of whether it was compiled tonight, or 10 years ago
I see your point, but I still find it helpful to know when _I_ last compiled Pd.
apart from that: Pd already displays that information, both with the "-version" and the "-verbose" flags (but in both cases, only on stdout).
Yeah, totally. Can't tell anymore why I missed that. Thanks and sorry for the noise.
somewhere and possible even the version (shortened commit hash)?
that's much more meaningful, but also much harder to get for all supported platforms.
I see.
Roman
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