Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-16 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars> One thing that would be nice if we could for svn versions was to | Lars> add the date of the build s

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> One thing that would be nice if we could for svn versions was to Lars> add the date of the build somewhere automatically. But for Lars> release builds we shou

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> One thing that would be nice if we could for svn versions was to Lars> add the date of the build somewhere automatically. But for Lars> release builds we should use a static non-generated string. Lars> if devel version put now(

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> OTOH it does not matter if version.C is regenerated from | Lars> version.C.in or not. | | OK, for version.C I was wrong. It _needs_ to be generated by | configure.ac. So i

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> OTOH it does not matter if version.C is regenerated from Lars> version.C.in or not. OK, for version.C I was wrong. It _needs_ to be generated by configure.ac. So if I removed the date, I would never need to update it... OTOH, I

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> I think configure.ac would be better. | | Lars> autogen is really something we have created to make it easier to | Lars> work with autoconf/automake. | | There is this is

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> I think configure.ac would be better. Lars> autogen is really something we have created to make it easier to Lars> work with autoconf/automake. There is this issue that autogen.sh writes to the source directory, while configur

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> But if we could make it to only need updating in one place that | Lars> would be nice. | | For date, the re is only one place. But indeed this is not the case | for versio

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> But if we could make it to only need updating in one place that Lars> would be nice. For date, the re is only one place. But indeed this is not the case for version. I had this proposal of doing it in autogen.sh, but you did no

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Bo> On 8/13/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >> Is somebody in love with the release date that we show in About | >> LyX? It strikes me as useless (and one more thing to

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bo> Can this date be generated automatically? (At least for scons, a Bo> macro subst with time.asciitime() is easy. ) >> Not really. I often update one day before release, for example. Bo> Come on, one day difference is not a big deal... If we p

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Bo Peng
Bo> Can this date be generated automatically? (At least for scons, a Bo> macro subst with time.asciitime() is easy. ) Not really. I often update one day before release, for example. Come on, one day difference is not a big deal... Bo

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bo> On 8/13/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is somebody in love with the release date that we show in About >> LyX? It strikes me as useless (and one more thing to update before >> relase). Bo> It is more or less useful.

Re: [PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-13 Thread Bo Peng
On 8/13/06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is somebody in love with the release date that we show in About LyX? It strikes me as useless (and one more thing to update before relase). It is more or less useful. Can this date be generated automatically? (At least for scons, a ma

[PATCH] get rid of date in About LyX

2006-08-13 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Is somebody in love with the release date that we show in About LyX? It strikes me as useless (and one more thing to update before relase). What about this patch? JMarc Index: src/frontends/controllers/ControlAboutlyx.C === --- src