Could add a -version or -debug flag to renderman procedural

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Closing issue 187, which is to print hello banners that announce alembic 
version. For renderman procedural it would be nice to have a mode to ask it to 
report to std out its version info.

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likely we want to do a singleton so the banner is only printed by first 
invocation, and not every time.

This feels like a lower priority concern.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ble...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2011 at 4:31

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Original comment by ble...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2011 at 12:04

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Original comment by miller.lucas on 24 Jan 2012 at 1:40

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It would be a good idea to report these messages via the RenderMan message API 
rather than using std::streams.

For instance:

http://hradec.com/ebooks/CGI/RPS_13.5/prman_technical_rendering/AppNotes/RixInte
rfacesApi/classRixMessages.html

Details the standard message interface for RenderMan.  It's best to use these 
since:

1.) They can automatically remove duplicates - the client doesn't need to care
2.) Their thread-safety is handled by the renderer and not the client - which 
is always better
3.) iostreams and threading and RenderMan is a difficult balancing act to get 
right without mutexes or other nasty locking mechanisms that you shouldn't need 
to use.

Original comment by evolutio...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2012 at 1:40

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Closing these old tickets out.  Please reopen new tickets if they are relevant 
to you and not completed satisfactorily.

Original comment by barnabyt...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2012 at 5:53

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