[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 51639] 'SOFFICE.EXE --VERSION' starts LibO Start Center instead showing version

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51639

--- Comment #10 from Tor Lillqvist <tlillqvist at suse.com> 2012-07-08 06:06:24 PDT ---
But we don't add the "program" folder to the system PATH, do we? So to find out
from where to run soffice.exe the script would need to look in the registry or
something, no? Is it then really much harder for the script to just look in the
version.ini file in the same location as soffice.exe. Not that I am sure if
version.ini contains anything usable, at least in my LO which in Help:About
identifies itself as 3.5.3.2 nothing in version.ini says 3.5.3.2...

Anyway, one basic problem right in the initial question is the concept "print
on stdout". soffice.exe is a so-called "GUI executable" which means that its
stdout and stderr are *not* connected anywhere, especially not to the console
window even if they are started from a cmd.exe in a console window. One would
have to redirect stdout from the cmd.exe command line to a file, or pipe it to
for instance the "more" command.

My recommendation is that instead of making soffice.exe --version print some
kind of version information to "stdout", we should just make sure version.ini
contains some version information that matches the version number as shown by
Help:About (in addition to the other cruft it currently contains, some of which
is probably fairly pointless).

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