Hello everybody,
I failed to find a previous discussion about this issue, so I'll state
my suggestion below.
While working with the udunits-2 library I came to the point where I
wanted to know which version of the lib and the XML files I was actually
using. I could not figure out any method to inquire this information
from the library itself. The commandline tool has no "--version"
parameter or anything and also the help screen ("-h") does not display a
version number. Even more interesting would be to know the timestamp of
the last change to the XML database used. I also failed to locate such
information within the XML files. The only thing I could find were
copyright notices which only point roughly into the right direction.
So my suggestion is to add such information to upcoming versions of
udunits to make it easier for people to track the changes and to find
out if they are actually using the up-to-date release or not.
This is of particular interest to me as I would like to include this
information in other tools that use udunits.
Any thoughts on this? So far I can't see any reason why this information
should not be a good idea to include in an easily accessible way.
Regards,
Michael
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Michael Decker
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung - Troposphäre (IEK-8)
E-Mail: m.decker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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