Re: gp -v

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Igor Schein wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 12:43:46AM +0200, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> > Hi pari-dev,
> >
> >   the output of 'gp --version' is (relatively) hard to parse. Also gp lacks the
> > customary '-v' short form.
> >
> > I'd like 'gp --version' to output the version number (only).
> > The current behaviour would be obtained by 'gp -v'.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> In general, a good idea.  Would output of gp -v contain version of
> CHAINED file for development branch?

CHANGES ? No. I'd rather keep it as terse as possible. It's meant to be used
by external programs checking for specific capabilities (or work around
specific problems). Tracking CVS commits is out of question for these.

    Karim.
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