[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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