--version (was: --help -- very nice, but undocumented)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Marty Leisner wrote:
> I tried egcs 1.1.2
> 
> egcs --version reports
> egcs-2.91.66
> 
> but an older version reports:
> %/usr/bin/egcs --version
> egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
> 
> (which is more useful, I think in terms of 1.0.3 or 1.1.2, not 2.90.29)

Personally I agree.

Is there any specific reason to omit the
  (egcs-1.2.3 release)
from the output of version? Or would a patch adding that information be
accepted?

Gerald
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