Proposal for a robust and simple Windows version

[newsailor]

Hi, nice to see this new version has been released publicly on exiftool.org.
One request, can the version number for the exiftool(-k).exe be changed to reflect the actual EXIFtool version?

https://i.imgur.com/Wqho2ER.png - This is what I see currently; 1.0.5.0/"Universal". The actual version should be 12.89.
I use this in an automation script to make sure I'm always running the latest version.

Cheers

[StarGeek]

This is what I see currently; 1.0.5.0/"Universal". The actual version should be 12.89.

I'm not commenting on if it can be changed or not, just the reason for the version number

Starting with version 12.88 the CFileVersionInfo won't give the ExifTool version number -- it will give the version number of the loader stub by Oliver Betz.

[Phil Harvey]

Unless someone knows of a command-line MacOS app to set .exe properties then this will be difficult for me.  As of 12.88 I now build and release all versions of ExifTool using a single script on the Mac.

- Phil

[newsailor]

Understood. Is there a "-version" flag I can pass to the EXE to get its version instead, then?

[StarGeek]

Use the -ver option

[newsailor]

Nice, thanks.