451707 - Provide an --version option to checksetup.pl

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement)

Description

[Frédéric Buclin]

I'm so used to run some_program --version to get information (and especially the version) about a program without running it for real that I'm sometimes tempted to do the same with checksetup.pl when playing with many installations (which installation am I playing with?). Also, when people ask for help on IRC, we ask for their version and they reply "how do I get it?". We have to tell them to go to index.cgi and look at the version at the top right of the page, or look at config.cgi, or look at Constants.pm,... or to run checksetup.pl, which will compile templates and take some time to complete (if run with no arguments).

I think it would be great if we were implementing checksetup.pl --version so that we have an easy way to tell people how to get the information, without all the workarounds above. And without having checksetup.pl trying to install Bugzilla! Its output could be as simple as:

* This is Bugzilla 3.3 on perl 5.8.8
* Running on Linux 2.6.22.19-desktop586-2mdv #1 SMP Mon May 5 20:45:47 EDT 2008

or be an alias for checksetup.pl --check-modules if that's easier to implement.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Attachment: v1

That's a great idea and it's really simple. I'd like it on the branch, so could I get review?

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 335118 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

great, thanks! r=LpSolit

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

tip:

Checking in checksetup.pl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl,v  <--  checksetup.pl
new revision: 1.559; previous revision: 1.558
done

3.2:

Checking in checksetup.pl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl,v  <--  checksetup.pl
new revision: 1.557.2.2; previous revision: 1.557.2.1
done