enhancement request -- have base image provide protocol to obtain object engine version number and image version number

> object engine version number and image version number
>
> The image provides
> ObjectMemory getHeraldString
> from which one can obtain the OE version number with code like:
>
> | versionString commasLocation afterVWCopyrightString
> afterNumberLocation |
> versionString := IOAccessor convertSimpleStringFromPlatform:
> ObjectMemory getHeraldString.
> commasLocation := versionString indexOf: Character space.
> afterVWCopyrightString := (versionString copyFrom:
> commasLocation + 1
> to: versionString size)
> removeSurroundingWhiteSpace.
> afterNumberLocation := afterVWCopyrightString indexOf: Character
> space.
> ^afterVWCopyrightString copyFrom: 1 to: afterNumberLocation - 1
>
> Please provide
> SystemUtils objectEngineVersionNumber
> so my code doesn't depend on the format of the herald string.
>
> In the same way, the image provides
> SystemUtils version
> from which one can obtain the image version number with code like
>
> | versionString commasLocation afterVWCopyrightString
> afterNumberLocation |
> versionString := SystemUtils version.
> commasLocation := versionString indexOf: $,.
> afterVWCopyrightString := (versionString copyFrom:
> commasLocation + 1
> to: versionString size)
> removeSurroundingWhiteSpace.
> afterNumberLocation := afterVWCopyrightString indexOf: Character
> space.
> ^afterVWCopyrightString copyFrom: 1 to: afterNumberLocation - 1
>
>
> Please provide
> SystemUtils imageVersionNumber
> so my code doesn't depend on the format of the version string.

> object engine version number and image version number
>
> The image provides
> ObjectMemory getHeraldString
> from which one can obtain the OE version number with code like:
>
> | versionString commasLocation afterVWCopyrightString
> afterNumberLocation |
> versionString := IOAccessor convertSimpleStringFromPlatform:
> ObjectMemory getHeraldString.
> commasLocation := versionString indexOf: Character space.
> afterVWCopyrightString := (versionString copyFrom:
> commasLocation + 1
> to: versionString size)
> removeSurroundingWhiteSpace.
> afterNumberLocation := afterVWCopyrightString indexOf: Character
> space.
> ^afterVWCopyrightString copyFrom: 1 to: afterNumberLocation - 1
>
> Please provide
> SystemUtils objectEngineVersionNumber
> so my code doesn't depend on the format of the herald string.
>
> In the same way, the image provides
> SystemUtils version
> from which one can obtain the image version number with code like
>
> | versionString commasLocation afterVWCopyrightString
> afterNumberLocation |
> versionString := SystemUtils version.
> commasLocation := versionString indexOf: $,.
> afterVWCopyrightString := (versionString copyFrom:
> commasLocation + 1
> to: versionString size)
> removeSurroundingWhiteSpace.
> afterNumberLocation := afterVWCopyrightString indexOf: Character
> space.
> ^afterVWCopyrightString copyFrom: 1 to: afterNumberLocation - 1
>
>
> Please provide
> SystemUtils imageVersionNumber
> so my code doesn't depend on the format of the version string.

> I don't think so....
>
> this is what I get for a versionId
>
> #[61 40 61 32 73 1 0 0 61 40 61 32]
>
> I don't see the ObjectEngine version of 7.1d anywhere.
>
> The image version of
>
> 7.3.1
>
> could be obtained from bytes 5 and 6, I suppose.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boris Popov [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 1:45 PM
> To: Ballard, Mark B; [hidden email]
> Subject: RE: enhancement request -- have base image provide protocol  
> to
> obtain object engine version number and image version number
>
>
> ObjectMemory versionId
>
> Return a 12 element ByteArray where:
>
> bytes 1 - 4 contain this platform's id where:
>  1 = platform version,
>  2 = platform number,
>  3 = platform release major number,
>  4 = platform release minor number (bits 7-4) and flags (bits
> 3-0)
> bytes 5 - 8 contain this image's id where:
>  5 = image major version,
>  6 = image minor version,
>  7 = image release major number,
>  8 = image release minor number
> bytes 9 - 12 contain the platform id that made this image.
>
> Isn't that what you need?
>
> -Boris
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]]
>> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 1:40 PM
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: enhancement request -- have base image provide protocol to
> obtain
>> object engine version number and image version number
>>
>> The image provides
>> ObjectMemory getHeraldString
>> from which one can obtain the OE version number with code like:
>>
>> | versionString commasLocation afterVWCopyrightString
>> afterNumberLocation |
>> versionString := IOAccessor convertSimpleStringFromPlatform:
>> ObjectMemory getHeraldString.
>> commasLocation := versionString indexOf: Character space.
>> afterVWCopyrightString := (versionString copyFrom:
>> commasLocation + 1
>> to: versionString size)
>> removeSurroundingWhiteSpace.
>> afterNumberLocation := afterVWCopyrightString indexOf: Character
>> space.
>> ^afterVWCopyrightString copyFrom: 1 to: afterNumberLocation - 1
>>
>> Please provide
>> SystemUtils objectEngineVersionNumber
>> so my code doesn't depend on the format of the herald string.
>>
>> In the same way, the image provides
>> SystemUtils version
>> from which one can obtain the image version number with code like
>>
>> | versionString commasLocation afterVWCopyrightString
>> afterNumberLocation |
>> versionString := SystemUtils version.
>> commasLocation := versionString indexOf: $,.
>> afterVWCopyrightString := (versionString copyFrom:
>> commasLocation + 1
>> to: versionString size)
>> removeSurroundingWhiteSpace.
>> afterNumberLocation := afterVWCopyrightString indexOf: Character
>> space.
>> ^afterVWCopyrightString copyFrom: 1 to: afterNumberLocation - 1
>>
>>
>> Please provide
>> SystemUtils imageVersionNumber
>> so my code doesn't depend on the format of the version string.
>