Re: getting context's version

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:17:33 +0200, Tobias wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Wybo Dekker schrieb:
> > > the method that taco posted is the way to go, since it's in the main
> > > context file that i (when zipping) change the version number
> > 
> > except that, if you unzip the newest cont-tmf and do mktexlsr but forget
> > to regenerate the format, it tells that the new version is there, but the
> > old one is actually run.
> How about:
> - check whether cont-en.efmt is older than context.tex
>   If this is the case, issue a warning/error
> - check the version in context.tex
> 
> This catches also buried problems like fmt file older than texmf tree
> which can also produce strange errors. (e.g. with cont-new.tex).
> 
> > So if I try to make a fool-proof script that needs the newer version, it
> > would be nice to have the version from the format itself.
> well using cont-en you got this number, unfortunally the fmt file is a
> not that easily readable memory dump so you cannot easily grep for the
> number directly without using TeX.

perl doesnt care about that binary stuff :)

   /\(format=cont-.. (\d+).(\d+).(\d+)\)/;

-- 
groeten,

Taco