r21873 - gnucash/branches/2.4/src/bin - Update stable gnucash version reported in Development warning

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 24 januari 2012 10:24:02 schreef Derek Atkins:
> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
> > Op maandag 23 januari 2012 12:35:48 schreef Derek Atkins:
> >> Geert Janssens <gjanssens at code.gnucash.org> writes:
> >> > Modified:
> >> >    gnucash/branches/2.4/src/bin/gnucash-bin.c
> >> > 
> >> > Log:
> >> > Update stable gnucash version reported in Development warning
> >> > 
> >> > Modified: gnucash/branches/2.4/src/bin/gnucash-bin.c
> >> 
> >> This should probably also be updated in trunk.
> > 
> > Actually, in trunk I decided to remove the version numbers altogether
> > to avoid this frequent update we're forgetting time after time
> > again. I was inspired by a suggestion by Colin Law on the development
> > mailing list.
> > 
> > Instead I have replaced it with a link to the website to learn about
> > the current stable release. I didn't want to do the same thing in 2.4
> > to avoid new translatable strings.
> 
> Yeah, I saw that.  I think historically we turned off the announcement
> in the stable branch.
> 
>From the code I gather it's turned off if you build from a tarball.

In this particular case Colin was building the svn 2.4 branch. The code seems 
to assume this to mean you're doing development.

I don't know if it's worth fine tuning this more.

Geert