[Github-comments] [geany/geany] RFC: Include Scintilla version in debug info (Discussion #3108)

[Robert Di Pardo]

> As for directly including the version files, I think something less ugly can be worked out

I was too harsh. The earlier suggestion was really no worse than the version parsing you'll find in Lexilla's [development scripts]:

```python
    # Discover version information
    version = (lexillaDir / "version.txt").read_text().strip()
    versionDotted = version[0] + '.' + version[1] + '.' + version[2]
    versionCommad = versionDotted.replace(".", ", ") + ', 0'
```

or [Scintilla's]:

```python
class ScintillaData:
    def __init__(self, scintillaRoot):
        # Discover version information
        self.version = (scintillaRoot / "version.txt").read_text().strip()
        self.versionDotted = self.version[0] + '.' + self.version[1] + '.' + \
            self.version[2]
        self.versionCommad = self.versionDotted.replace(".", ", ") + ', 0'
```

But then, how does SciTE manage all those version numbers in the About dialog?

![scite_516_show_versions](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/59004801/150643789-97dd70d0-e816-4384-b3cc-928fef0af7a8.png)

[Ah!]

```cpp
#ifndef SCITE_H
#define SCITE_H

// Version numbers and dates
#define VERSION_SCITE "5.1.6"
#define VERSION_WORDS 5, 1, 6, 0
#define COPYRIGHT_DATES "December 1998-December 2021"
#define COPYRIGHT_YEARS "1998-2021"
#define VERSION_SCINTILLA "5.1.5"
#define VERSION_LEXILLA "5.1.4"
```


[development scripts]: https://github.com/ScintillaOrg/lexilla/blob/a35a59845e793d9d37d249cf097e71fecc5f4bcd/scripts/LexillaGen.py#L106-L109
[Scintilla's]: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/code/ci/da6ead58cc1bdb16a4ee063497c3d25e10b5e586/tree/scripts/ScintillaData.py
[Ah!]: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/scite/ci/93067c476e2c34e8620ad73cdfe842cfcc49cafe/tree/src/SciTE.h

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