[mapguide-internals] Version setting script

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Good idea. Properly tagged source file are very helpful!

just one thought....
do we need to introduce yet another scripting language into the system?
This is supposed to be multi-platform I thought.
Therefore, I think its very advisable to contain the number of tools for 
this system (in particular as VBS might not work on linux)
I am not sure if VBS is a good approach for this goal.

I suggest to do this with a java tool (as java is already required for 
the build), parsing the source tree can be done within ant I believe.
This would be a truly portable solution. VBS seems like marrying into 
windows world more then necessary.

Experience tells that if we have to many different tools and languages 
the maintainability of the system suffers.

Any thoughts?

Jason Birch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last night I committed a VBS script that can be used to update the build numbers in the source files.  It's not 100% yet, but it can probably be integrated into the build process to update the version number on published builds.
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/updateversion.vbs
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> I have to write something similar for the Installer, or preferably figure out a way to pass properties to the installer build processes (WiX and NSIS).  This is important to figure out not only for naming the nightly releases, but to make managing multiple installer builds (localized versions, etc) easier.
>
> I was unable to use batch files for this because of the regular expression, string, and file handling that were required.  After I wrote it, it occurred to me that using the PHP CLI may have been a better choice than CScript because it's available on all of the platforms we support.  If necessary, it won't be hard to re-write.
>
> I have a question: Does the MapGuide web tier check to make sure that it is running the same version as the server?  If so, is this check exact, or is it only on the first three parts of the version (Major, Minor, Point)?  If it checks the full version number, I think this would require users to re-install both the Server and Web tiers to try out a new development build or patch, which may not be desirable. 
>
> Jason
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