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author | Max Horn | 2003-09-08 17:46:54 +0000 |
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committer | Max Horn | 2003-09-08 17:46:54 +0000 |
commit | c775614e1b6ecec6ae910c18775f0755e72ea50e (patch) | |
tree | 1921ed15894042649c35c5f259411cbb953fb0ba /common/engine.cpp | |
parent | a6661b2070b16cc613c5775ffaf4a42f2060baff (diff) | |
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fixed circular dependency; moved version string to main.cpp (seems more logical to me, too)
svn-id: r10105
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diff --git a/common/engine.cpp b/common/engine.cpp index 4605b49a46..32bb73a9ac 100644 --- a/common/engine.cpp +++ b/common/engine.cpp @@ -28,49 +28,6 @@ #include "common/timer.h" #include "sound/mixer.h" -/* - * Version string and build date string. These can be used by anything that - * wants to display this information to the user (e.g. about dialog). - * - * Note: it would be very nice if we could instead of (or in addition to) the - * build date present a date which corresponds to the date our source files - * were last changed. To understand the difference, imagine that a user - * makes a checkout of CVS on January 1, then after a week compiles it - * (e.g. after doing a 'make clean'). The build date then will say January 8 - * even though the files were last changed on January 1. - * - * Another problem is that __DATE__/__TIME__ depend on the local time zone. - * - * It's clear that such a "last changed" date would be much more useful to us - * for feedback purposes. After all, when somebody files a bug report, we - * don't care about the build date, we want to know which date their checkout - * was made. This is even more important now since anon CVS lags a few - * days behind developer CVS. - * - * So, how could we implement this? At least on unix systems, a special script - * could do it. Basically, that script would run over all .cpp/.h files and - * parse the CVS 'Header' keyword we have in our file headers. - * That line contains a date/time in GMT. Now, the script just has to collect - * all these times and find the latest. This time then would be inserted into - * a header file or so (common/date.h ?) which engine.cpp then could - * include and put into a global variable analog to gScummVMBuildDate. - * - * Drawback: scanning all source/header files will be rather slow. Also, this - * only works on systems which can run powerful enough scripts (so I guess - * Visual C++ would be out of the game here? don't know VC enough to be sure). - * - * Another approach would be to somehow get CVS to update a global file - * (e.g. LAST_CHANGED) whenever any checkins are made. That would be - * faster and work w/o much "logic" on the client side, in particular no - * scripts have to be run. The problem with this is that I am not even - * sure it's actually possible! Modifying files during commit time is trivial - * to setup, but I have no idea if/how one can also change files which are not - * currently being commit'ed. - */ -const char *gScummVMVersion = "0.5.3cvs"; -const char *gScummVMBuildDate = __DATE__ " " __TIME__; -const char *gScummVMFullVersion = "ScummVM 0.5.3cvs (" __DATE__ " " __TIME__ ")"; - /* FIXME - BIG HACK for MidiEmu */ OSystem *g_system = 0; Engine *g_engine = 0; |