Am Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2012 um 08:23:04, schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> I thought the idea was to get better bug reports from users. But it > >> seems that the extra information isn't that useful for bug reports > > > >> because most users install from binaries (for which we already know > >> the build information). > >> > > Not necessarily. There are a myriad Linux distributions and for each > > bug report the user/devel are unlikely to check the packaging habits > > of the given distro. > > Good point. But if someone is on Linux they are probably comfortable > doing --version. That's not true for everyone though. I know people > who use Linux and are still terrified by the terminal.
If I do "lyx --version", I get the time stamp
LyX 2.1.0dev (2011-04-29)
Built on Oct 9 2012, 22:49:51
CMake Build
This is misleading, since it is not so important when it was built, as it were
to know
the timestamp of the source. "2011-04-29" does not seem very helpful.
The date is taken from configure.ac:5
AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2011-04-29"])
> Scott
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> > My 00.02€
> > Liviu
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