unrar-5.4.5

[bdubbs@…]

New minor version.

[bdubbs@…]

This is a beta version.

[Armin K]

Where does it say it's beta? I only see about rar and winrar commercial/non-free products.

[bdubbs@…]

Replying to Krejzi:

Where does it say it's beta?

​http://www.rarlab.com/

[Armin K]

Yes, but as I said, it's about RAR and WinRAR.

You can find rarlinux (binary only, proprietary sw) named as beta here:

​ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar/

I expect if unrar was beta, it would have similar naming.

WinRAR is windows only, so I won't even bother to mention it.

[Armin K]

unrar is not beta. Only commercial products are, and they are indicated with {pkgname}-{pkgversion}b{x} as such.

[bdubbs@…]

If I build this version, I get:

$ unrar -?

UNRAR 5.40 beta 2 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2016 Alexander Roshal
...

Investigating, the file cmddata.cpp has:

  int Beta=RARVER_BETA;
  if (Beta!=0)
    swprintf(Version,ASIZE(Version),L"%d.%02d %ls %d",RARVER_MAJOR,RARVER_MINOR,St(MBeta),RARVER_BETA);
  else
    swprintf(Version,ASIZE(Version),L"%d.%02d",RARVER_MAJOR,RARVER_MINOR);

RARVER_BETA is defined in the file version.hpp. For version 5.4.2:

$ cat version.hpp 
#define RARVER_MAJOR     5
#define RARVER_MINOR    40
#define RARVER_BETA      2
#define RARVER_DAY      30
#define RARVER_MONTH     5
#define RARVER_YEAR   2016

My conclusion that this IS a beta version.

[Armin K]

I stand corrected then. However, it is rather unusual versioning scheme. How would one know which version is not beta besides from checking every new version's version.hpp manually?

[bdubbs@…]

Replying to Krejzi:

I stand corrected then. However, it is rather unusual versioning scheme. How would one know which version is not beta besides from checking every new version's version.hpp manually?

I agree that it is somewhat uncommon. It also does not have a --help or --version option. The only way you get the version from the command line is to use options that it does not recognize.

[Armin K]

It appears 5.4.5 is a non-beta release.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 17705.