Re: GNOME Desktop Version String

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

Yeah,
I didn't want to make it sound that just Sun wanted this and hence I was
told to make it so ;)
For the moment, I just but in a very lame '2.0', but I know that Sun
will be patching locally to include some more detailed information as
you mentioned below which would be used in programs [as you mentioned]
like bug-buddy, gnome-about, gnome system info etc...
			See ya,
				Glynn ;)

> I think it could be very useful, for a number of reasons- for example,
> bug-buddy could grab it, and it would be easy to ask newbies who file
> bugs 'tell me what version of gnome you have installed.' 
> 
> The trick is that '1.4' or '2.0' by themselves are not of much use.
> Perhaps this could be a set of values of some type?
> 
> Like:
> *Version- could be general, like 1.4, 2.0, etc.
> *Vendor- Ximian, Red Hat, GNOME Packaging Project, Sun, etc.
> *'Built on date'- not necessarily a build date, but a 'when released to
> the world' type date, so that bug people have at least a rough estimate
> of when it was built and what type of patches might be or not be in. For
> vendors with updating stuff (like, say, if RH does a patch release of
> major components, or Red Carpet updates key components) we could touch
> this and update it.
> 
> I'm sure other fields could be useful here, but these are the things I'm
> thinking of off the top of my head.
> Luis