Re: no product version number in Windows binaries of Ghostscript

I don't fully understand: are you saying this version number *used* to
be present, and isn't any more? Because I can't see any evidence we
ever included it, and I'm certainly not aware of a recent(iish) change
that would have removed it.

Or just that it's not present, and you want us to include the field
(that Microsoft's documentation explicitly says is optional)?

Chris

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 21:40, Jörg Jenderek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>