[ka-Map-users] Ka-Map version

[Paul Spencer]

The problem with using the $Id: $ from cvs is that it is relatively  
meaningless for determining the actual release version.

If there was a way to do a $Tag: $, that might work better.

In the mean time, HISTORY.TXT is all we have.

Paul

On 13-Sep-06, at 9:27 AM, Lorenzo Becchi wrote:

> I guess HISTORY.txt is doing well its job:
>
> 1) you see this string: "Version 0.1.0 (2005-05-18)"
> this means you have "at least" version 0.1.0
> the index.html has a HTML table structure to manage layout
>
> 2) you see this string too: "Version 0.2.0 (2006-02-07)"
> this means you have "at least" version 0.2.0
> index.html has the "aqua" stile with trasparent toolbar.
>
> 3) you see this string too: "Version 1.0 - unreleased"
> this means you have the version 1.0 beta 1.
> index.html as ka-Explorer interface.
> "beta 1" means this is not a stable version and some bug may still  
> be there.
>
> no more releases have been cut.
>
> ciao
> Lorenzo
>
>
>
> On 13/set/06, at 15:04, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Why not put the cs-id in kaMap.js like this:
>>
>> var version = "$Id: $";
>>
>> and then make it available via a method call. The method could  
>> also do some pre-parsing to grab just the version string or  
>> convert it into am int for easy comparison.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>> Paul Spencer wrote:
>>> there is a cvs-id in the header of each of the files (or most of  
>>> them, at least).  Theoretically, HISTORY.TXT should be updated  
>>> before each release so you can check the latest version there.
>>> Cheers
>>> Paul
>>> On 12-Sep-06, at 1:15 PM, Pje wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> is there a way to know which version of Ka-Map I'm using? I just
>>>> unziped the htdocs folder into my webserver but i don't have the  
>>>> zip
>>>> file anymore. Is there a function to show the version or something
>>>> like this?
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