Editor doesn't report what channel is it

[sethladd]

There's no way to tell if I'm using the nightlies, the weeklies, or the milestone release. Can we add something to the About page?

[danrubel]

We could capture this information in a version file that is created during a trunk build and modified when a trunk build is pushed out as a weekly or milestone. If this version file is not present, then we could assume that the build is continuous.

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[devoncarew]

The editor auto-update always pulls from the integration stream (trunk that's been promoted to integration). So currently there's just one channel. I'm closing this, but feel free to re-open if you think there's somethings we should do re: channels or user messaging.

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[sethladd]

If someone downloads a bleeding_edge build, but then turns on auto-update, then will "switch" to trunk builds. This isn't obvious.

Am I understanding the situation correctly? Can we be more obvious about what happens?

(not debating the status of this issue, but am raising a related question...)

Thanks!

[devoncarew]

Phil, thoughts? Should we adjust out messaging a bit in the update pref page and about box?

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[sethladd]

Issue #14865 has been merged into this issue.

[sethladd]

Issue #14909 has been merged into this issue.

[clayberg]

Issue #14909 has been merged into this issue.

[sethladd]

Is there any other way to tell what channel a user is on?

I guess we could show both versions (dev and stable) on dartlang.org and say:

DEV: 12334
STABLE: 933

And then the user can go to About Editor and compare versions. This might work in the meantime.

[pq]

https://codereview.chromium.org/61643010/

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[pq]

Fixed w/ r30083.

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