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Title: New versions
Post by: djgl on 2014-07-25, 18:03:26
I get notifications of an update available from Sourceforge but when I look at the About in Otter there does not seem to be any difference from that in the current version. Or am I missing something?

Title: Re: New versions
Post by: Frenzie on 2014-07-25, 19:02:19
Since it's the development of 0.9.02 I don't think you should expect to see any difference, although perhaps some more info there could be interesting. For instance something like the build date.
Title: Re: New versions
Post by: beastie on 2014-07-25, 19:34:29
The notifications you are getting are most probably related to the release of weeklies (http://sourceforge.net/projects/otter-browser/files/). However many of these weeklies are part of 0.9.02 (second Beta) as the development of a Beta version is an ongoing process (https://github.com/Emdek/otter/issues/milestones).

Also, there is an issue ticket (https://github.com/Emdek/otter/issues/257) on GitHub for the inclusion of date timestamps within Otter itself for identification purposes.
Title: Re: New versions
Post by: djgl on 2014-07-26, 09:28:34
Thanks for the replies.

I was referring to the About window where the build numbers remain the same.
Title: Re: New versions
Post by: Frenzie on 2014-07-26, 09:31:46
Me too. Like how in Opera it says "Version 12.16 Build 1860." :)
Title: Re: New versions
Post by: Emdek on 2014-07-28, 18:05:29
Maybe we could go for manually added version string, appended to "main" version defined already, it could be "weekly #some number" or "beta some number" etc.
Such approach seems to have less disadvantages than automatically generated values and is more flexible.
We could try this today.
Title: Re: New versions
Post by: Frenzie on 2014-07-28, 19:38:42
Sounds good to me!
Title: Re: New versions
Post by: djgl on 2014-07-29, 09:17:38

Sounds good to me!


I agree - it would be helpful.

Title: Re: New versions
Post by: ersi on 2014-07-29, 09:41:44
@Emdek
Yes, let's have it this way! And did you try it today? It would be nice to see a more elaborate version number in the next turn-of-the-month release.

/me still has the old turn-of-the-month release 0.9.01

Title: Re: New versions
Post by: Emdek on 2014-07-29, 11:31:22
@ersi, yes, although defining this text in .pro file wasn't straightforward. ;-)
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OTTER_VERSION_CONTEXT = " weekly $$LITERAL_HASH""30"