Wine Version String
Neil Skrypuch
ns03ja at brocku.ca
Sat Nov 18 17:39:46 CST 2006
On Saturday, November 18, 2006 18:17, Robert Lunnon wrote:
> Somewhere between Version 0.9.23 and Version 0.9.25 the version string
> format changed from
>
> Wine X.X.X
>
> to
> wine-X.X.X
>
> Can we please decide on a version string format and stick to it so
> packaging can be reasonably automated.
>
> Bob
I think that's a result of the new git version magic, for example:
$ ./wine --version
wine-0.9.25-gef2c062
Presumably the gef2c062 allows one to identify the exact sources used to build
that version, but for release builds just the tag is sufficient.
- Neil
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