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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

It depends on how it is built. Currently the triplet version number is
manually added by packagers. If you build from the tars you will get
no-bzr or something like that. If you build from a bzr repo you will
get a bzr revno, if you build from a git repo, you will get a bzr and
git hash.

2016-03-01 13:43 GMT+01:00 Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Why doesn't the version in the about dialog actually give the versions that
> are announced e.g. 4.0.2?
>
> On 1 March 2016 at 10:19, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Removed the menu option from help in this version of the patch.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Attached is a patch that modifies a few things in the About dialog, a
>> > screenshot with old and new is also attached
>> >
>> > It removes the horizontal rule which is redundant due to the auinotebook
>> > Adds Copy Version Info to the about box which i think is a better
>> > place for it than in the help menu esspecially on OSX where about
>> > isn't even in the help menu (I haven't removed the menu items yet  am
>> > interested to hear other peoples thoughts on whether it is used often
>> > enough to keep it in the main menu bar as well) due to this the code
>> > is currently in 2 places.
>> > I have also changed the about dialog (and version info from the about
>> > box) change to use the currently running version of wxwidgets rather
>> > than the version that kicad was built with unfortunately this is not
>> > possible with boost
>> >
>> > Simon
>>
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