Version strings

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:14:49 -0800
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> There was similar discussion of waf editing man pages to get the date
> on the bottom left corner.

Yup.

> I don't understand waf well enough to go there.

Ditto, and not high enough on my list to work on.
 
> I think this branch of the thread started when you wanted to be able
> to run ntplogtemp directly rather than running it out of
> build/main/ntpclients/

Uh, not me.  A few people complained on devel@

> I don't see any need to link the version of things like simple
> logging scripts to the main ntpsec versions.

And in fact, there is a downside in added complexity and confusion factor.

> Maybe it's time to move ntpviz and the logging stuff to a separate
> package.

How does that help?

> > Yeah, because you have the NTPsec python library installed
> > somewhere.  
> 
> So it's printing the library version rather than its version.

It gets worse, I just updated my git head, reinstalled, my version still says:

ntplogtemp ntpsec-1.0.1+221 2018-01-02T18:30:45Z

So the version updating is broken.

> If waf did edit a local version string, we could add a sanity check
> to verify that a top level program was running with a new-enough
> version of the library.

Yup.

RGDS
GARY
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