Re: [udunits] suggestion: version information / timestamps for udunits lib and XML database

• To: Michael Decker <m.decker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [udunits] suggestion: version information / timestamps for udunits lib and XML database
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:43:49 -0600

Decker,

Good idea. I'll see about doing it.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson
UDUNITS developer

On 03/17/2011 04:04 AM, Michael Decker wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I failed to find a previous discussion about this issue, so I'll state
> my suggestion below.
> 
> While working with the udunits-2 library I came to the point where I
> wanted to know which version of the lib and the XML files I was actually
> using. I could not figure out any method to inquire this information
> from the library itself. The commandline tool has no "--version"
> parameter or anything and also the help screen ("-h") does not display a
> version number. Even more interesting would be to know the timestamp of
> the last change to the XML database used. I also failed to locate such
> information within the XML files. The only thing I could find were
> copyright notices which only point roughly into the right direction.
> 
> So my suggestion is to add such information to upcoming versions of
> udunits to make it easier for people to track the changes and to find
> out if they are actually using the up-to-date release or not.
> This is of particular interest to me as I would like to include this
> information in other tools that use udunits.
> 
> Any thoughts on this? So far I can't see any reason why this information
> should not be a good idea to include in an easily accessible way.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> 
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  • [udunits] suggestion: version information / timestamps for udunits lib and XML database
    • From: Michael Decker