cmd/juju: version subcommand should report the compiler version

[Dave Cheney]

I would like there to be a way to retrieve the compiler that compiled juju, jujud.

The suggestion is to add this to the output of juju version, something like

% juju version
1.17.0-saucy-amd64 (gccgo)

There are probably some compatability concerns

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Our experience has been that stable releases aren't really *that* up to date (official releases are roughly 1/month that's a pretty long gap between security updates, etc). What is the goal of avoiding the apt-get update? Just time spent starting up?

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Sorry, that ended up on the wrong bug report.

I think this would be fine. We could do multiple lines if we wanted to. Or a verbose flag, or a few different things.
What is the specific goal? To have people include the info in bug reports (by default)? Or to be able to ask for the information?

[Dave Cheney (dave-cheney)]

The difficulty I have now is we're approaching a future where we'll
have tools witht he same version string produced by two different
compiler toolchains. I need a way to figure out which is which when
apportioning blame ^h^h^h bug reports.

I can figure which is which using ldd and chicken guts, but I'd like a
more customer friendly way, especially if we're talking about adding
some kind of 'bug report' script that scrapes up all the bits and
pieces.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
> Sorry, that ended up on the wrong bug report.
>
> I think this would be fine. We could do multiple lines if we wanted to. Or a verbose flag, or a few different things.
> What is the specific goal? To have people include the info in bug reports (by default)? Or to be able to ask for the information?
>
>
> ** Changed in: juju-core
> Status: Incomplete => Triaged
>
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> Title:
> cmd/juju: version subcommand should report the compiler version
>
> Status in juju-core:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> I would like there to be a way to retrieve the compiler that compiled
> juju, jujud.
>
> The suggestion is to add this to the output of juju version, something
> like
>
> % juju version
> 1.17.0-saucy-amd64 (gccgo)
>
> There are probably some compatability concerns
>
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