Welcome to a new series of posts regarding Tips & Tricks about Griffon.
The Griffon team decided to leave a late San Valentin present in the form of Griffon 0.9.5-rc1. This particular release includes plenty of updates to the build system and the command line tools. And here comes the first tip, which is enabled in the 0.9.5.x series: how can you tell which version of Griffon you're currently running? Moreover, how can you tell which Groovy version it relies upon?
The answer lies in using the --version (or -v) flag with the griffon command, and no arguments. For example, running the griffon command in my current setup with this flag turned on yields the following output
For plugin authors, this information is available at buildtime only as static properties found in the class org.codehaus.griffon.cli.GriffonEnvironment.
Keep on Groovying!
