Decker,
Good idea. I'll see about doing it.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
UDUNITS developer
On 03/17/2011 04:04 AM, Michael Decker wrote:
> 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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