[ome-users] OME version information

[Graham Klyne]

At 13:05 08/07/05 +0100, Chris Allan wrote:
> > ...  Please, please, please, can you at least incorporate the version
> > number into the distribution archive file names?
>
>It is.
>
>http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/snapshots/ome-2.4.0.tar.gz
>
>http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/snapshots/stable.tar.gz is a
>convenience for those who just want the latest stable version.

OK.  It's not clear to me how I should know that.  I accessed the download 
by the following route:
   http://www.openmicroscopy.org/
   - select Download OME
   http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/
   - select "Server infrastructure and web interface: 2.4.0 March 7, 2005"
   http://cvs.openmicroscopy.org.uk/snapshots/stable.tar.gz
which seems pretty direct and logical to me.

Suggest:
(a) the web page link that explicitly mentions version 2.4.0 actually links 
to the specified version, and/or:
(b) the reference to stable.tar.gz is routed by means of an HTTP redirect 
so that the browser URI and default filename for download use the 
version-qualified name.

>You can always check the version by looking at src/perl2/OME.pm.

OK, but again I'm not sure how I would know that.

Suggest any or all of:
(a) add a note to the top-level README saying how to find the version number.
(b) arrange for install.pl to display the version number (from OME.pm) at 
the start of the installation, and again when reporting a failure
(c) [maybe...] create a file version.pl or version.txt or similar in the 
top-level directory which can be referenced by other modules that access 
the version number.

#g


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