add build date to log

[Edgar]

Ed's change does not add the svn revision number anywhere.

True, it just extends the ability to tell the build date to beta (and "stable" though of little interest there). Deducing a nightly's commit revision number from it's build date is not too hard I would suppose.

In re. searching the Bugzilla, sorry , can be of little further help, I recall it as Richard but maybe Leland who bemoaned the lack.

[waxcylinder]

BUMP - does this need trnsferring to Wiki>Pending Feature Requests?

[Gale Andrews]

BUMP - does this need trnsferring to Wiki>Pending Feature Requests?

Build date is already added to alphas and is un-necessary for releases. It seems that it isn't possible to programmatically add the svn revision number to About Audacity (and so to the top of the log). So I don't think this is for PFR's.

Of course the person packaging the "Nightly Builds" (myself for Windows and Paul for Mac) can manually add the svn revision number to the name of the file to be downloaded (or somewhere else). I don't think it would be acceptable to manually mess with Audacity.h each time to get the revision number in About Audacity and log. Paul might be able to script the file name to also include the revision number - I'll ask him.


Gale

[waxcylinder]

Thanks for the heads-up Gale.

Peter