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[Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry simon, this wasn't specific to your patch, more of a general
question. Thanks for the clarification Nick.

On 1 March 2016 at 13:52, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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