Re: slrn version on one line for brevity

* Jörg Sommer <[email protected]> [2008-02-23 15:03]:
> Sven Guckes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > but - is there a way to put the version info on one line?
>
> Why do you need this? What's the rational behind this question?

brevity. :)

besides, a long output just scares most people off.

many GNU programs also display the GNU license -
but you can get the program name and version info
from the first line by piping the output to "head -1".

example:

  guckes@kudu:~> emacs --version
  GNU Emacs 22.1.1
  Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
  You may redistribute copies of Emacs
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

  guckes@kudu:~> emacs --version | head -1
  GNU Emacs 22.1.1

hmm... havent called emacs in a loooooooooooooooooooooong time...

> >   Software + Version:  slrn 0.9.999
> >   Linked to  library:  S-Lang 2.1.3
> >   Source Released on:  2008-02-22
> >   Operating   System:  Linux ... 2.6.18-4-xen-amd64
> >   Compile  Date+Time:  Fri Feb 22 13:23:42 CET 2008
> >
> > overkill?  maybe.  ;-)
>
> To you, maybe ;-)

no, not really.

actually, i am fine with both.
as they both have its purpose.

so - how about making it
*two* startup options?

  $ slrn --version
  $ slrn --version-long

that way the short call gives a short output,
preferably just one line.  and the long option
name gives you all the rest of the stuff. :-)

Sven

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