[Gambas-user] getting Gambas version info across devices

[Bruce Steers]

Cheers  bruce,
It seems to very nearly work.
All but manjaro.

Would I ideally need to write my own version finder routine then?

BruceS

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, 21:26 Bruce, <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/3/21 4:48 am, Bruce Steers wrote:
> > Hi all , i have a query..
> >
> > I have made a simple application I call whatGambasWhere that mounts all
> my
> > hard drives, checks gbc3 exists in usr/bin/ and runs it with -V to get
> it's
> > version.
> >
> > If you look at the attached snapshot you can see it works for every
> system
> > except Manjaro that has a library issue.
> >
> > I tried using gbr3 and if i do ONLY the ubuntu disks work and i get
> library
> > errors on most.
> >
> > so is there possibly....
> > A. Another/better way to get the installed gambas version from another
> > file, maybe a text file?
> > B. a way to get manjaro version to work okay ,, running gbc3 -V on the
> > manjaro system works fine.
> > C. no hope
> >
> > Cheers in advance.
> > BruceS
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Your application is possibly not a good idea as you are trying to run
> the various versions of gbc3 and gbx3 with the libraries on the local
> version. This may not work.
>
> b
>
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