[Vm-dev] About VM version string

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

I think this depends on who is the #vmVersion inteded for. For example, if
it is for users, then I would expect to get something like Cog 1.4  Cog 2.5
I mean...who care what VMMaker/PlatformCode was used?  The user may not even
be aware of that.

Now, if it is intended for VM developers, where they need such information
for a bug for example, then I think that yes, both things are important:
VMMaker version and platoform code.

For me, just version of VMMaker is not enough. I'd rather put the
COnfigutaionOfCog version...which has no only the VMMaker version, but also
the version of all its dependencies.

In addition, I would put the SVN version (in case the platform code come
from SVN) or GIT commit hash.

Cheers

Mariano



On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> i'd like to know what we can do to clean up the mess with Cog VM
> versioning, so people could identify it more easily.
>
> Currently , what
>
> Smalltalk vmVersion shows is:
>
> Smalltalk vmVersion
>
>  'Croquet Closure Stack VM [StackInterpreter
> VMMaker-oscog-IgorStasenko.Stasenko.49] StackVM VM 4.0.0'
>
> but it doesn't says anything about which version of platform sources
> are used to build it.
> Also, a version number VM 4.0.0 makes no sense..
>
> I'd really like to see what we can do to improve it.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>



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