marko releases alpha binary of external version string

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Marko

Posted on: 2014/5/12 7:09 #1

Quite a regular

There's an update of Extversion on OpenAmiga.org.

Seen here: link

Quote:

I made some more progress today and as a result Alpha 3 is ready and available to download on [View Files] tab/link of this project ([View Project]).
Link:
http://openamiga.org/index.php?function=viewfiles&projectid=32

Remember this is an Alpha version meaning it is not deeply tested and has a lot of things that doesn't work yet like all options and deep error checking.

But if a proper Extversion cookie has been place in a file like:
"�$EXTVER: programname version.revision (dd.mm.yyyy) comment�"
(with leading and trailing zero character, � is a zero character)

it will find it with this command from shell like:
1> extversion programname

and output:
programname version.revision (dd.mm.yyyy) comment

So what is left (except fixing bugs):
* implement some options
* more error checking
* tidy up the code (to meet some guidelines and make a few more code comments)
* finish the documentation
* possibly a simple installer
* etc etc.

Hint: You can test the extversion file on itself, it has the EXTVER tag, like:
1> extversion extversion

Goodnight!

Files can be found here:
Extversion files

Edited by orgin on 2014/5/12 15:09:39

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orgin

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/12 15:10 #2

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Double post. Ohh well. Please help marko test his binary.

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broadblues

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/12 15:19 #3

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What exactly is the difference between this and

version full
?

Which will also display the 'comment' after the date section on a seperate line?

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broadblues

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/12 15:26 #4

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Example:

9.AmigaOS4:> VERSION FULL APPDIR:amiupdate
AmiUpdate 2.35 (29/09/2013)
Part of the AmiUpdate suite

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orgin

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/12 15:49 #5

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@broadblues

It will allow a separate version cookie that is solely intended for a non amiga version.

Vacca foeda. Sum, ergo edo

Mr Bobo Cornwater

Chris

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/12 16:22 #6

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@orgin

I trust you can do version compares against this new string as well? Which wouldn't be possible if the "non-Amiga version" was just in the comment part of the usual $VER string.

broadblues

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/12 16:43 #7

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@orgin

The quoted format in the quoted test in the original post looks very like a standard amiga version to me, hence my question

@Chris

Version testing on a non standard version format would be quite tricky though. You could assume it's always in linux format vers.rev.subrev but many foreign apps don't stick to that rule either.

[edit]
bad grammar even by *my* typing standards
[/edit]

Edited by broadblues on 2014/5/12 18:12:07

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Chris

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/12 17:27 #8

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@broadblues

Very true. However, even an "exact match" might be worthwhile (hmm, you could probably do that with the comment part anyway)

Marko

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/13 0:16 #9

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@orgin

Thanks

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Marko

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/13 0:31 #10

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@broadblues

Quote:

The quoted format in the quoted test in the original post looks very like a standard amiga version to me, hence my question

I agree, not the best example in the test quoted. I try to give a better example next time.

The point is to store a non Amiga version (f.ex. a Linux version) along with the "normal" Amiga version. So you have both the $VER: and $EXTVER: in a binary at the same time.

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Marko

Re: marko releases alpha binary of external version string

Posted on: 2014/5/13 0:36 #11

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@Chris

I added the "versions compare-exact match" to the do list to be implemented in the future.

Otherwise, version testing on non standard versions might be pretty tricky as broadblues says.

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