What version are we at?

Felix Hanley felix at seconddrawer.com.au
Wed Jan 26 03:34:36 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:14:07PM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:55:15AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > Hallo!
> > 
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:27:09 +0700, Felix Hanley <felix at seconddrawer.com.au> wrote:
> > > I am just wondering what version of OfflineIMAP it actually is?
> > > 
> > > The Makefile says 4.0.16
> > 
> > Wrong.  These Makefile rules (tarball creation) should be removed, if
> > they're stale / if nobody's using them anymore.  (For sure the
> > ``VERSION=[...]'' statement should be removed / changed.)
> 
> Ouch! I didn't think the makefile would mention the version. I guess we
> could do some magic instead:
> 
>   - grep for the true version from offlineimap/__init__.py
> 
> or
> 
>   - implement a short python program to do so (perhaps a onliner)
> 
> or
> 
>   - implement a new option to OfflineIMAP to ouput the raw version only
>     which could used in scripts (does anybody use OfflineIMAP from
>     scripts?)
> 
> > > The git comments say 6.3.2
> > 
> > Mostly correct.  v6.3.2-rc2 is the last pre-release; see its recent
> > announcement.
> > 
> > > The blinkenlights UI says 6.2.0
> > 
> > Does it still do so with a recent version?
> 
> $ grep -R 6.2.0 *
> 
> gives me no output.
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Sebrecht

I should have also mentioned that I am running it on Archlinux where the
package version is 6.3.1 so that adds even more confusion! But the main
point being there are a number of references to versions. Not a big
issue but nice to be consistent.

-felix
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