On Friday 20 July 2001 07:17, R. Lahaye wrote:
> > Looks like an excellent idea. A simpler solution would probably be to
> > generate this data in a file that would be installed along with LyX.
> > This way the information would be available even when LyX cannot be
> > launched.
>
> I then would opt for both: allow a version flag to the lyx executable
> and generate a file or script ("lyx-config") with the version info.
>
> Many software handles a "-version" (and/or "--version") flag, so I
> thought it'll be useful to add this to LyX as well. For software under
> development this flag should output all necessary info for the developers.
> This output added to a bug report, could be most helpful.
Combine both ideas, so that the file is generated during compilation of lyx
and is input when running lyx -version. No need to add unnecessarily to code
bloat!
Angus
