Version reporting function

[divamva]

It may prove useful to have a function available in the Tcl interface that would report what version of openSEES is currently running. It will probably help to ensure that any structural model is running on an up-to-date version of OpenSEES, at least as up-to-date as it needs!

This should be incredibly simple to implement.

[silvia]

doesn't it say it on top???

[Nero]

doesn't it say it on top???

I may be wrong, but I think what he means is the ability to grab the version while executing a script. That way you could compare the current version to any requirements the script has, and then output a warning/error if the version is too old.

Ex, if there was a command, "CurentVersion" that returned the current running version of OS:

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set ReqVersion 1.7
if { $ReqVersion > CurrentVersion } {
  puts "Warning: You must be running OpenSees 1.7 to run this script"
else {
  #execute analysis here.
}

Something like that.

[divamva]

Thanks Nero, that is exactly what I mean. In this way you can send a script to your collegues and they will immediately receive the proper error (incorrect version of openSEES) rather than a cryptic error about a material model not being present.

[Nero]

Thanks Nero, that is exactly what I mean. In this way you can send a script to your collegues and they will immediately receive the proper error (incorrect version of openSEES) rather than a cryptic error about a material model not being present.

One problem I see is this- none of the past versions have this command, thus, they will end up with just a random error for the "CurrentVersion" command or whatever it would be. It'll be beneficial for the version that introduces the command, but would not be of any help to someone who has, say, v. 1.6