Re: plperl version on the meson setup summary screen

On 2024-11-29 Fr 3:26 AM, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 at 08:40, Zharkov Roman <r(dot)zharkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 2024-11-27 21:50, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> it should give the same answer
>> Sometimes "version" and "api_versionstring" are different. Here are two
>> simple examples from my windows system and from a linux system of one of
>> my colleagues:
>>
>> C:\Temp>perl -MConfig -e "print \"$Config{api_versionstring}\n\"; print
>> \"$Config{version}\n\""
>> 5.32.0
>> 5.32.1
>> C:\Temp>perl -v
>> This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 1 (v5.32.1) built for
>> MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
>>
>> perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{api_versionstring}\n"; print
>> "$Config{version}\n"'
>> 5.38.0
>> 5.38.2
>> perl -v
>> This is perl 5, version 38, subversion 2 (v5.38.2)
> It is different for me too:
>
> $ perl -MConfig -e 'print "$Config{api_versionstring}\n";
> print"$Config{version}\n"'
> 5.38.0
> 5.38.2
> $ perl -v
> This is perl 5, version 38, subversion 2 (v5.38.2)
>
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 at 17:51, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> On 2024-10-17 Th 10:02 PM, Zharkov Roman wrote:
>>> With the attached patch we can see the "perlversion" in the summary
>>> information table. But without a beautiful console colorize.
>>>
>> Yeah, the lack of version number has mildly annoyed me too, so let's fix
>> it. I haven't found the right secret sauce to make the version number
>> appear colorized, either. Maybe some meson guru can tell us how.
> It seems that we can force ANSI colors:
>
> - 'plperl': [perl_dep, perlversion],
> + 'plperl': [perl_dep, '\033[1;36m(at)0@\033[0m'.format(perlversion)],
>
> But I think this is too hacky. I am not sure if that is the best way
> or worth it.
>

Yes, way too hacky. If we can't find a better way I'm good with Roman's
idea in principle.

cheers

andrew

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