[mapguide-internals] Version setting script - What about ANT

[Jason Birch]

I agree that any major changes to the build system need to wait until after 2.1; whatever we do now should be just enough to get 2.1 out the door.  I'm not going to spend any time thinking / talking about it until after the 2.1 installer is 100%.

Whatever people decide on for setting the version numbers is fine by me, though I'm not going to be of much use helping to maintain something in Java or Perl.  

Specs?  Seriously? :)  The version updater currently:

- Accepts the build major, minor, and point (2, 1, 0) versions as command line options

- Calculates the fourth part of the version by extracting the current Revision from "svn info" and then finding its modulus of maxint

- For each .rc file (not third-party), replaces each FILEVERSION, PRODUCTVERSION, FileVersion, ProductVersion value with the current version

- Updates the version information (different formats) in each of:
   Common/ProductVersion.h
   Web/src/mapviewerjava/ajaxviewerabout.jsp
   Web/src/mapviewernet/ajaxviewerabout.aspx
   Web/src/mapviewerphp/ajaxviewerabout.php
   Web/src/mapadmin/resizableadmin.php

The regular expressions I used for these are fairly simple, and are available in the .vbs file.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Morrison
Sent: April-08-09 5:39 AM
Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] Version setting script - What about ANT

The way I understand the question being discussed is two-fold.  First is simply set the version numbers, second is some kind of automated build.  PERL can handle the versioning easily and quickly.  It is portable across platforms. I also thought PERL was already required, (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Building_MapGuide_on_Windows).  I would recommend a LOT more discussion to implement a build package.  I also would hate to see 2.1 pushed out farther waiting on that discussion.

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: UV
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:24 AM
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Version setting script - What about ANT

Yes,

Perl was my first thought too.
But it is introducing another tool dependency into the build which I 
think should be avoided if possible - not at all costs ;-)
And perl scripts are really not very readable for the unprepared.....
But its already more portable than the VBS.

Jason what are the specs for this version update??
This is now the interesting question so we can scope this better.