Re: [Monetdb-developers] Build date in Mserver startup info

Niels Nes wrote:

indeed right thats the real problem. I think other projects also only show the source code version ie a version or a version plus snapshot date. So we also leave it at what we have, maybe generate a date into the version string, we we release snapshots (which we currently don't).

Can't make be instructed to always compile or evaluate a file? Some python script could perhaps generate a little C file which has one method to return the (hard coded) date. This method might get called from instances who need it. In the worst case the end binary gets relinked I guess? I might think too simple