thanks bulia. Ah. The marvels of DOS. Who'd a thunkit?
inkscape --version >tempfile does indeed work for win2000. The output is 'Inkscape 0.40 (Nov 30 2004). This is correct since it came from the full win32 release.
but...I do most of my work on the cvs versions, only downloading the latest inkscape_stripped_exe files. The version data in these are not changing and are wrong. I have checked three of them and they all come up with Inkscape 0.39cvs (Nov 19 2004). Even if this was 0.40 it is of no help for cvs versions. We need the full date number eg 0412161007. Windows builders? The frustrating thing is that we had it in the About box for a while and it worked perfectly. I doubt that anybody wants to have to go through command line stuff to get that information. Ah. Those halcyon days long gone.
vellum
----- Original Message ----- From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> To: "vellum" <kaver@...68...> Cc: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...260...>; "MenTaLguY" <mental@...3...>; "Kees Cook" <inkscape@...62...>; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Winlibre and Upping our point release numbers
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:11:50 +1100, vellum <kaver@...68...> wrote:
Win 2000. Has anyone succeeded using Win2000 or XP (Josh has not). And bulia, do you get it to work with win98? If so what specific command are
you
using?
Apparently it then starts a new DOS box, prints its stuff there, and closes. That's why you see nothing. But you can catch the output into a file:
inkscape --version > temp_file
and the temp_file will have the output. I just tried that and it works in win98. Though the version it reports for the latest build is 0.39CVS :(( Something is way behind in windows builds apparently.