The current "about" dialog box shows a as of yet non-existent version number (currently 0.2.0). Besides just being plain confusing, this makes it tricky to report bugs.
When building from a release tarball or a tagged git commit, the tagged version should be used. When building from any other commit, the last know tag should be shown, plus the hash of the current commit and some indication of the progress (usually a counter of commits since the last tag).
In fact the easiest way to do this is have something in the make file that reads git describe --tags --always to set the version string. For example right now the output of that is v0.1.1-450-gc8b11cb, which would be an imminently useful string to see in the about dialog as the version string.
The current "about" dialog box shows a as of yet non-existent version number (currently 0.2.0). Besides just being plain confusing, this makes it tricky to report bugs.
When building from a release tarball or a tagged git commit, the tagged version should be used. When building from any other commit, the last know tag should be shown, plus the hash of the current commit and some indication of the progress (usually a counter of commits since the last tag).
In fact the easiest way to do this is have something in the make file that reads
git describe --tags --alwaysto set the version string. For example right now the output of that isv0.1.1-450-gc8b11cb, which would be an imminently useful string to see in the about dialog as the version string.