[lazarus] Updates

[Florian Klaempfl]

At 22:12 20.11.01 +0100, you wrote:


>On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Shane Miller wrote:
>
> > Most of these bug fixes are OS INDEPENDANT.  Meaning that the bug 
> existed on Linux and Windows and is now fixed.  The reason for this is 
> that we are using one code base for both OS's.  The fixes I made affected 
> the IDE and the IDE is all OS independant (except the debugger).
> >
> > I'm not sure if the version number should be changed.  For example, the 
> file MAIN.pp has been updated 152 times.  We could have a version like:
> > 0.9.152 I suppose but it may become slightly difficult to maintain 
> (when multiple updates are done by multiple people) and I'm not sure of 
> it's use.
>
>Just do the following:
>
>unit main;
>
>Const
>   MainVersion = '$Id:$';
>
>This will insert the CVS version number in the MainVersion constant.
>You can manipulate this string constant a bit to extract the build
>version automatically, and show it in the About box or wherever you want.
>
>This causes no extra work at all, and gives a slight idea of the version.

I think it's better to add simply the date of the build, no?