[thg-dev] Build date in About dialog box of TortoiseHg

[André Sintzoff]

Hello,

Regularly I'm advising colleagues to update TortoiseHg to a more recent version.
They said: "OK but how can I know that my version is so old?".

I'm wondering if and how the date of the build could be added in the
About dialog box.

Thanks

André

[Yuya Nishihara]

Post by André Sintzoff
Regularly I'm advising colleagues to update TortoiseHg to a more recent version.
They said: "OK but how can I know that my version is so old?".
I'm wondering if and how the date of the build could be added in the
About dialog box.

Maybe you'll need to hack setup.py and version.liveversion(), but I'm not sure
if it's common to include build/release date in about dialog.

I wish Windows had official package manager like apt-get or yum. AFAIK, there
are a few third-party tools:

https://chocolatey.org/

Regards,

[André Sintzoff]

Post by Yuya Nishihara

Post by André Sintzoff
Regularly I'm advising colleagues to update TortoiseHg to a more recent version.
They said: "OK but how can I know that my version is so old?".
I'm wondering if and how the date of the build could be added in the
About dialog box.

Maybe you'll need to hack setup.py and version.liveversion(), but I'm not sure
if it's common to include build/release date in about dialog.

You are right.
At least, I could show them the copyright part of the About dialog.
The year is usually correct.

BTW, I think automatic updates should not be implemented.


André