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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Dino,

I believe this change was only to the version number that will appear in
front of the string. It should still show the commit hash if you are
compiling from source after checking out from the git repository. Is this
not what you see?

-Ian

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 7:20 PM Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hallo everybody,
> Now that the old (sub)string related to the commit that has been
> compiled is not in the version string anymore, may be it should be added
> somewhere in the "version info" dialog to have that information easily
> available in the bug reports.
>
> P.S.: If this has yet been discussed... just drop this mail (I confess I
> did not follow all the discussion about it)
>
> Cheers,
> Dino.
>
>
> On 24/08/19 14:52, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> > Fine for Fedora.  +1
> >
> >       Steve
> >
> > On 8/23/19 5:01 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> Since our previous discussion about the version string for the
> >> development branch we have had more users confused about what appears to
> >> be the 5.1 stable version not being able to open board files created by
> >> a nightly version.  To this end, I am making an executive decision to
> >> change the development branch version tag to 5.99.0 so that it's obvious
> >> to users that the development version is newer than the current stable
> >> version.  I realize that this was not universally popular with all of
> >> our package devs but given the number of times this has been an issue
> >> for users I cannot continue to ignore this.  Before I change the tag, do
> >> any of our package devs need any time to prepare.  If I don't hear
> >> anything by the end of the weekend, I will update the version tag in the
> >> master branch on Monday.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >>
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