Version.getVersion

[thomasrunge]

Any chance to make com.jcraft.jsch.Version.getVersion public? I find it very helpful to ask (and log!) all currently used versions of third party libs.

[mwiede]

You could get meta-information from the jar by getting the version also: com.jcraft.jsch.JSch.class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion()

[norrisjeremy]

You could get meta-information from the jar by getting the version also: com.jcraft.jsch.JSch.class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion()

FYI, I think that only works as long as the original jar-file is used. If you shade the Jsch library into another jar-file (for example using the maven-shade-plugin), I don't think that will work, since the original MANIFEST.MF from the JSch jar-file may not be present. This is ultimately why I created this Version class a few releases ago, since internally we have an application in which we shade the JSch library and I discovered that the version number wasn't getting set correctly in the SSH connection exchange with a server.

I'm not sure if we should make the Version class public, or perhaps just provide a wrapper method in the JSch class itself that returns Version.getVersion()?

[thomasrunge]

Well, the original JSch had JSch.VERSION, you removed that.

[norrisjeremy]

Hi @thomasrunge,

Would restoring JSch.VERSION (as proposed in #100) suffice for your use case?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[thomasrunge]

That would be perfect, as I'm currently using the old JSch version and switching over to your version would minimize trouble.

[mwiede]

@thomasrunge your fix has landed https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.github.mwiede/jsch/0.1.71/jar

Thanks @norrisjeremy for the patch