[PATCH 1/6] main: Always print version, drop -V option

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Wed Aug 31 23:39:39 CEST 2011


Hi,

Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> writes:
>  		"  -h --help\t\t\tPrint this help message\n"
> -		"  -V --version\t\t\tPrint the version number\n"

Why this change? It is very useful to be able to query the version
number of a package with --version.

> -	printf("dfu-util - (C) 2005-2008 by Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.\n"
> +	printf("dfu-util version %s\n", VERSION);
> +	printf("(C) 2005-2008 by Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.\n"
>  	       "This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO
> WARRANTY\n\n");

This looks fine.

-Timo



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