no pingbacks if running a development version

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc b/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
index bbcd44111cb1039168606070b25904f36ff6a090..d123d3edcfbce39338359d4af18e2aaa7f2ba7c5 100644 (file)
--- a/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
@@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ namespace ARDOUR {
 
 void pingback (const string& version, const string& announce_path)
 {
+       /* check this is not being run from ./ardev etc. */
+       gchar const *x = g_getenv ("ARDOUR_THEMES_PATH");
+
+       if (x && string (x).find ("gtk2_ardour") != string::npos) {
+               std::cerr << "no ping\n";
+               return;
+       }
+
        ping_call* cm = new ping_call (version, announce_path);
        pthread_t thread;