[mlpack] how to get mlpack version

[Giampaolo Bellini]

Dear Ryan

  thanks a lot for your work... that's exactly what I was looking for !

  I'll download and try mlpack 1.0.8 tomorrow... thanks again!

          Giampaolo



2014/1/6 Ryan Curtin <gth671b at mail.gatech.edu>

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:07:39PM -0500, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:31:10PM +0100, Giampaolo Bellini wrote:
> > > Dear all
> > >
> > >   I'm using latest mlpack on linux for neighbor search
> > >
> > >   I wonder if there is a way to retrieve the library version in order
> to
> > > show it in the about box of my application...
> > >
> > >      thanks a lot
> > >
> > >              Giampaolo
> >
> > Hello Giampolo,
> >
> > At the moment, the best way to find that information is to look in one
> > of the header files distributed with mlpack (like mlpack/core.hpp).
> >
> > That isn't a very good solution, though, so I have opened a ticket [1].
> > What I'm planning to do over the next couple of days is add a
> > '--version' option to each mlpack executable that will tell you the
> > version of mlpack, and also a library function that will return the
> > version as a string (i.e. "1.0.7").
> >
> > Unfortunately, that won't be available until the next release, so
> > looking in mlpack/core.hpp will have to suffice for now.  I'm hoping to
> > release 1.0.8, which will contain this functionality, in the next few
> > weeks (I have a few other things to add first).
>
> Hello Giampolo,
>
> I wanted to let you know that the mlpack version is now available in
> each executable with the --version option and also through C++ with the
> mlpack::util::GetVersion() function and the __MLPACK_VERSION_MAJOR,
> __MLPACK_VERSION_MINOR, and __MLPACK_VERSION_PATCH macros.
>
> Hopefully that is what you needed.  This is available now in subversion
> trunk and will be in mlpack 1.0.8, which should be released today, or
> tomorrow, or the day after...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Curtin    | "Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature."
> ryan at ratml.org |   - Balph Eubank
>
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