[m-rev.] for review: Print version information on two lines.

Peter Wang novalazy at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 12:09:54 AEDT 2014


On Tue,  4 Mar 2014 11:28:36 +1100, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> For review by anyone.
> 
> Branches: master, version-14.01-branch
> 
> ---
> 
> In the Mercury compiler itself, and in a number of tools we print a version
> string on one line,
> 
>     $ mmc --version
>     Mercury Compiler, version rotd-2013-10-01, configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>     Copyright (C) 1993-2013 The University of Melbourne
> 
> When the version number is sufficiently long, such as for an ROTD release, this
> will wrap on 80 column terminals.  This change splits these strings into two
> parts.
> 
>     $ mmc --version
>     Mercury Compiler, version rotd-2013-10-01,
>     configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>     Copyright (C) 1993-2013 The University of Melbourne

This change is entirely unnecessary.

And it definitely does not belong on 14.01.

Peter



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