--version command line argument (without launching OpenShot)

The only command line option is the following (from the manual):

openshot [filename]

The optional [filename] parameter can be either an audio or video file, or an OpenShot project file (*.osp). Multiple files can also be specified (with spaces between each filename), and all files will be imported into a single instance of OpenShot.

In general, we have not bothered too much with the command line as we have seen limited value, seeing as it's a video editor.

But if someone wants to submit a patch then we'd have a look at it.

OK. I've finally got it to work. Here's the patch. I'll also set my branch to merge. Sorry for the ~7 commits! I kept ignoring the error message and trying "new" things... Also, I'll see if I can add that to the manpage also.

I added changed the patch to add '--version' to the manpage, too.

I added changed the patch to add '--version' to the manpage, too.

Thanks, we'll take a look at it soon!

Thanks, this has been committed to the trunk.

I'll cancel the merge request since you committed the patch instead.

While testing this new feature, I found a big issue which was crashing OpenShot. If the 1st import statement did not find OpenShot, it would break importing classes.info, and thus not launch OpenShot. I moved the code around, and put it into a safer location. This also fixes another bug, when there are multiple instances of OpenShot launched the "--version" arg would crash it. So, all is good now, and checked in. Thanks!