Re: Version discovery...

[Adam Fedor]

On Oct 14, 2004, at 8:58 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Can we have some number version, so it can be compared by #if ? 
> Something like:
>
> #degfine GNUSTEP_BASE_VERSION 110
>
> I would suggest to use format 100*major + minor. It would ignore 
> patch/subminor
> number as there are usualy incompatibilities between minor releases 
> for non-cvs
> users. Majority of CVS users have up-to date sources anyway and they 
> are often
> aware of possible incompatibilities.
>
> Similar would be for GNUSTEP_GUI_VERSION and probably GNUSTEP_VERSION.

There is already that as well, but that only tells you the version that 
the application was compiled with, not the version it is running under.