[vorbis] version number

[John Lundy]

I probably have everyone focusing on the wrong thing. Sorry about that. What
I am looking for is the real version information, derived directly from the
DLLs (Windows platform, of course) that returns the actual, released version
information. For instance, prior to the 1.0 release, I could not find any
API call that returned "1.0 rc3" for my application (RipTrax) to use in the
About dialog (providing proper credit is extremely important to me). I
*believe* I checked all the API calls (the documentation is still not
complete enough to be sure) but could not locate a call that returned this
information. If you know how to access this data, PLEASE let me know. I'm
concerned that as we progress toward the next release (2.0?) I will be stuck
hard coding the interim version information in the About box because, 1) I
can't find the correct API call, or 2) The data does not exist.

I hope this is more clear. Sorry for the confusion.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan MacDonald" <newslists at warpzillion.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:55 AM
Subject: RE: [vorbis] version number

<p>>
> > Anyway, if you call a release version 1.0, then the API should return
> > 1.0 during a version query, reguardless of the origin of '0'. In fact,
I'd
> > ask that version info be returned as a text string *only*.
>
> I think you're confusing two different things.  The "version" field set to
0
> means that this is a vorbis 1 type stream.  The next version of vorbis
(i.e.
> one that would require a new _decoder_) would have that field set to 1 and
> be Vorbis 2, for example.  I think you are more concerned with which
release
> of vorbis 1 you have.  That can easily be obtained from the vendor string
> which includes the build date and also happens to say Vorbis I.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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