How do I find what version of OS commerce I have?

[nubbin]

Hi,

 

I have just installed OS commerce from a Fantastico script provided by my hosting company. I would like to know what version of OS commerce it is.

 

I have searched in the OSC admin panel, and in the installed files but I can't find the version number.

 

Also, if it turns out I have an out of date version, would it be best to uninstall it and dowload and install the latest version from the OSC site, or is it it easy enough to apply upgrades?

 

Thanks

[Guest]

In catalog/includes/application_top.php

 

// define the project version
 define('PROJECT_VERSION', 'osCommerce 2.2-MS2');

 

The_Bear

[custodian]

Hi,

 

I have just installed OS commerce from a Fantastico script provided by my hosting company. I would like to know what version of OS commerce it is.

 

I have searched in the OSC admin panel, and in the installed files but I can't find the version number.

 

Also, if it turns out I have an out of date version, would it be best to uninstall it and dowload and install the latest version from the OSC site, or is it it easy enough to apply upgrades?

 

Thanks

 

Are you looking for

 

osCommerce 2.2-MS2

 

or with revision such as

 

oscommerce-2.2ms2-051113

 

If you are looking for oscommerce-2.2ms2-051113 I don't think is a way to determine this

[nubbin]

Are you looking for

 

osCommerce 2.2-MS2

 

or with revision such as

 

oscommerce-2.2ms2-051113

 

If you are looking for oscommerce-2.2ms2-051113 I don't think is a way to determine this

 

Hi,

 

Thanks very much for your hepful replies. Thanks to your advice I found I have osCommerce 2.2-MS2.

 

A couple of questions:

1. What does a target of "2.2-CVS" mean?

 

I see this as the target many times in the list of Contributions. For example, the Ultimate SEO contribution has 2.2-CVS as the target. However, when I click on this contribution it says " am proud to announce the release of Ultimate SEO URLs for osCommerce-MS2":

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ch,ultimate+seo

 

2. Given I do not know hte revision number, would it be best for me to do a clean install of the latest version of OS commerce, or do you reckon I am ok with the one installed by Fantastico?

 

 

Thanks. I hope to be able to help others out here once I've got more experience with OSC - at the moment I am at the learning to crawl stage!

 

Cheers

[custodian]

From another thread

 

You seem to be using a CVS version of osCommerce. These releases are not regarded as stable nor fit for production use. Please use version 2.2 MS2, downloadable from http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/downloads .

 

-jared

 

also from http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

 

CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages.

 

CVS is a production quality system in wide use around the world, including many free software projects.

 

While CVS stores individual file history in the same format as RCS, it offers the following significant advantages over RCS:

 

* It can run scripts which you can supply to log CVS operations or enforce site-specific polices.

* Client/server CVS enables developers scattered by geography or slow modems to function as a single team. The version history is stored on a single central server and the client machines have a copy of all the files that the developers are working on. Therefore, the network between the client and the server must be up to perform CVS operations (such as checkins or updates) but need not be up to edit or manipulate the current versions of the files. Clients can perform all the same operations which are available locally.

* In cases where several developers or teams want to each maintain their own version of the files, because of geography and/or policy, CVS's vendor branches can import a version from another team (even if they don't use CVS), and then CVS can merge the changes from the vendor branch with the latest files if that is what is desired.

* Unreserved checkouts, allowing more than one developer to work on the same files at the same time.

* CVS provides a flexible modules database that provides a symbolic mapping of names to components of a larger software distribution. It applies names to collections of directories and files. A single command can manipulate the entire collection.

* CVS servers run on most unix variants, and clients for Windows NT/95, OS/2 and VMS are also available. CVS will also operate in what is sometimes called server mode against local repositories on Windows 95/NT.

[nubbin]

Henry,

 

Thanks.

 

I've just dicscovered Fantastico let's you see the OSC version and revion number. Others may find this useful:

 

If you install OSC from a fantastico script supplied by your web hoist, you can find the OSC version number and revision number by going into Fantastico, then clicking on the OSC installation option. The resulting screen contains an install/uninstall option and also details the OSC version and revision number.

 

Turns out I have the very latest version !

 

Cheers