`git describe`

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Tue Nov 29 21:08:42 CET 2016


On 29 November 2016 at 19:42, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday November 29 2016 19:03:04 Clemens Lang wrote:
>
>> By asking. Somebody who wastes developers time by hiding the fact that
>> they are running and older version on purpose will end up no longer
>> getting support at some point.
>
> Well, regardless of whether the reporter is hiding things on purpose, you'll still have to ask for technical details in order to be certain that the installed version is indeed too old.
>
> If you prefer to do that rather than having the info available in the log, who am I to suggest otherwise :)

This reminded me of
    https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52575

It would probably be helpful to print MacPorts version to main.log as well.

Mojca


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