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Version Information subcommand `manim version`

See original GitHub issue

Feature request

implement a manim version command.

What should the command do?

Tell you exactly which version of manim you are running. Either release number or commit-hash and date

Why?

It makes it easier to help people with their problems. It makes it easier to catch error arising due to multiple versions being installed locally.

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:15 (15 by maintainers)

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leotrscommented, Oct 13, 2020

@cobordism, the manim new you propose is already proposed and discussed #244. The wider issue of subcommands and the CLI interface is related to #452. The only subcommand we currently have is manim cfg, which already exports a user-wide cfg file.

So let’s keep this issue for discussing the version functionality. I am neutral as to whether this should be implemented as manim version or manim --version, though TBH the latter sounds more natural to me.

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leotrscommented, Oct 13, 2020

On every packaged release we have to include a version number. On a version that is not packaged (i.e. it has been installed by cloning the repo), you can just print the latest commit by asking git. No need to hard-code the commit hash.

OR we should investigate how “nightly” python packages do this.

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