Equivalent of KDE::version*()?

Jaroslaw Staniek staniek at kde.org
Mon Mar 21 10:52:10 UTC 2016


On 29 September 2015 at 09:32, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:

> On Monday 15 June 2015 22:23:17 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > One would need a need runtime version information of particular kf5
> > libraries -- in addition to version with which the software has been
> > built.
> >
> > It seems that mostly Plasma and KActivities have equivalent of runtime
> > version information.
> > I am not looking build-time *_version.h files generated (with
> > *_VERSION_* macros) but something like
> > plasma-framework/src/plasma/version.h.
> >
> > Attica is a good exception here, I cannot spot anything else.
> >
> > PS: Maybe the code can be generated?
>
> What would this be useful for? Working around bugs?
>

Sorry, late reply... ​As a last resort, yes.
But the original though is to know the version(s) when collecting
feedback/support information (Kexi does it per user demand as a part of its
QA).

My plan was rather not to have bugs in the first place :-)
> Yeah yeah, I know ;)
>
> If there's usefulness in this, we could generate some code indeed
> (ECM to the rescue once more...).
>
> --
> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Working on KDE Frameworks 5
>



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