[Hugs-users] Print version and quit

[Leif Frenzel]

Dimitry,

thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, the IDE is Eclipse, and it is
supposed to run on a range of platforms. I'm working on supporting Haskell
at least on Windows, Linux and MacOS, which rules out a system-dependent
approach. Calling the executable with an option is platform-independent, so
if this were possible, I would rather avoid platform-dependent solutions.

But it is a minor convenience feature anyway (the rest of the Hugs
integration works fine so far), so I will probably make a feature request to
the Hugs team and omit displaying the version in the UI for the time being.

Ciao,
Leif


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitry Golubovsky" <dimitry at golubovsky.org>
To: "Leif Frenzel" <himself at leiffrenzel.de>
Cc: <hugs-users at haskell.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Hugs-users] Print version and quit


> Leif Frenzel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there an option for Hugs to just show a version string and quit
> > immediately? (Could not find anything like that in the manual, and some
> > plausible candidates I tried had not the desired effect.)
> >
>
>
> Have you tried something like this (quick and dirty; some more
> sofisticated Perl solution might be suggested but I am not a Perl expert):
>
>
> echo :Q|hugs|grep Version|tr -d "|_"
>
> Release will print (e. g.):
>
>     Version: November 2002
>
> A CVS snapshot based executable will print (e. g.):
>
>     Version: 20040720
>
> To be more precise, some leading and trailing blanks may remain. But I'm
> sure you can figure it out how to remove them (and the word Version: as
> well if needed).
>
> --
> Dmitry M. Golubovsky
>        South Lyon, MI
>
>