no product version number in Windows binaries of Ghostscript
Jörg Jenderek <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Dec 2018 03:40:13 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel |
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| Organization | GMX |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
no product version number in Windows binaries of Ghostscript Hello, The Windows binary executable "gswin32.exe" and "gswin32c.exe" contain no version number of type "major.minor.release.minorRelease". I explicitly see this item for 32 bit software Ghostscript version 9.23/9.26 and some older variants. This is only a cosmetic problem at first glance. But well behaved Windows executables should have this field. Some other software use and rely on this meta information inside file header. I use a software called SUMo found at https://www.kcsoftwares.com/?sumo to look for older/out dated software, which needs to be updated. Apparently this software use the product version to took/decide for software updates. For Ghostscript this field is missing. So Sumo never realize that installed Ghostscript version is too old. By accident i myself read about security issues concerning Postscript and checked manually for installed Ghostscript. So i realized that on my Window systems Ghostscript software was out dated. So i would be nice if Windows binaries contain the desired product version number. Thanks -- Jörg Jenderek