[Ecls-list] --version command arg?

Rick Taube taube at uiuc.edu
Thu Oct 5 16:08:31 UTC 2006


would you consider adding a --version command arg (or -V, whatever)  
to ecl that would print ecl's version number and then exit?
this would provide a clean interface for scripts that need version  
info before they build software

currently my script does
	echo '(progn (format t "~a" (lisp-implementation-version)) (quit))'  
| ecl | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f4
to figure out what ecl version is running


pinhead:/Lisp/cm hkt$ openmcl --version
1.0

pinhead:/Lisp/cm hkt$ sbcl --version
SBCL 0.9.15



thanks, rick





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