Frozen code images change version on esp8266

[thetreerat]

as a systems admin kind of guy. when I create a firmware with frozen code I get the boot text with the build number that I built my code from so I can't tell after it loaded on a board that it contains my frozen code without doing an import.

So my questions are
1. Is bad form for me to change the boot text before I build the bin file?
2. if not where is that text stored in the git repo that gets baked into the bin?

Thanks
Hal

[pythoncoder]

I appreciate this doesn't actually answer your question, but issuing help('modules') will list your frozen modules along with others which are available.

[thetreerat]

no that was not the question but very helpful.

thanks.
Hal

[Roberthh]

help('modules') will list your frozen modules

Indeed, very interesting.

[pythoncoder]

At risk of stating the obvious (and again failing to answer the question ) a solution to the problem in the OP might be as follows. For each project put a file "project_list.py" in the project's frozen modules directory. This would simply contain print statements describing the build. On all boards main.py would then do something like

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try:
    import project_list
except ImportError:
    print('Standard build.')