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YomikoR / VapourSynth-Editor

Branch vse-previewer for standalone previewer. Branch vs-api4 for an IDE with a text editor. Branch master for "stability". Forked from https://bitbucket.org/mystery_keeper/vapoursynth-editor
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Show version in terminal #38

Closed davidak closed 2 years ago

davidak commented 2 years ago

I want to create an integration test to check if the packaged program has the right version. For that i need a way to output the version in terminal.

Most CLI programs have a parameter like:

vsedit --version

or

vsedit version

but both lead to error.

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example:

[nix-shell:~/code/nixpkgs]$ git --version
git version 2.36.2

Could you implement that feature?

YomikoR commented 2 years ago

Sorry, versioning is hard on a personal fork.

davidak commented 2 years ago

The version format is uncommon, but not a problem for us. I ask for an option to show the version in terminal and exit.

I'm not sure if that fits for GUI programs and if it's a sane thing to ask. Do you have an opinion?

Otherwise we would need a GUI integration test, which can also be useful to make sure the GUI starts.

YomikoR commented 2 years ago

I see. The version string can always be found in README. Is that already what you need?

davidak commented 2 years ago

It could happen that a project forgets to update the readme, so that is not reliable.

I asked in social media if a --version option makes sense for GUI programs, and everyone said yes. Many popular open source gui programs have that.

https://chaos.social/@davidak/108985098142325538

Would you implement that?

YomikoR commented 2 years ago

Please let me know if the latest release doesn't work as expected in your toolset.

davidak commented 2 years ago

It works perfectly! We will update the package in nixpkgs.

[davidak@gaming:~/code/nixpkgs]$ /nix/store/8sa86nrkyi01s516j0ng43wxwx6zs06k-vapoursynth-editor-19-mod-5.4-with-plugins/bin/vsedit --version
VapourSynth Editor R19-mod-5.4

Thank you!