[vorbis] version number

[Michael Smith]

At 12:55 PM 7/22/02 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

It's a good idea, and we'll consider adding it in the next major release.
It won't be added in the immediate future, though, because we've already
released 1.0, and we don't want to start forcing people to upgrade to
1.1 (or whatever) a week later. 

Michael

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