OpenEuphoria

Re: Detecting EU version

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Dec 14, 2004
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Alan Oxley wrote:
> 
> Gents and Ladies,
> maybe this solution is too easy, but:
> 
> how about running a known CRC check against "ex.exe" etc,  
> and comparing that against known results?
> Rob won't have to change a thing, and as a bonus if the executable
> was tampered with, eg virus alteration, the CRC check would not check out?

I'm surprised you didn't see the problems with this idea:

1. It prevents Rob from ever fixing even the smallest bug in the 
"official" release - which, as we know, tends to be the *only* release 
for a year or two. Very puzzling to get a message saying you need "2.5" 
when you *are* running 2.5, but the library which is reporting the error 
was written for the previous (un-bug-fixed)  crc.

2. How do we ever guess the crc's of versions 2.6, 2.7, .... etc. so that 
our programs can also run on those? Crystal balls don't work, you know.

Irv