[Yanel-dev] build.properties.version introduced

[Michael Wechner]

Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have introduced a build.properties.version (similar to the version 
>> number of realms.xml and resource-types.xml), because
>> I had very strange problems during startup and the reason was, that 
>> my local.build.properties didn't have zhe same configuration
>> re ambiguous xerces libs and hence I had the wrong xerces and it took 
>> me quite some time to figure this out.
>
> Why not use Subversion keywords substitution instead to avoid having 
> to think of maintaining this version number?

I guess this doesn't work if people are using source snapshots, right?

Cheers

Michi

> Cf. 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html 
>
> We could use build.properties.dateMarker=$Date$ (I changed the name as 
> it's not only a date) after having done `svn propset svn:keywords 
> "Date" src/build/build.properties`.
> Please note AFAICR it also work as expected on `svn export` like CVS 
> did, so it should also work for source snapshots.
>
> There is the minor problem that the date marker would change for every 
> modification, even the non-significant ones, but I think this does not 
> happen too often in practice for configuration files.
>
> If we go that route maybe it makes sense to also use that for 
> versioning realms.xml and resource-types.xml: it should be 
> backwards-compatible if we only compare the dates for equality, which 
> I guess we do.
>
>
>> So the build process will compare the version numbers of 
>> local.build.properties and build.properties and if these are 
>> different will
>> throw an exception and tell people to "synchronize" these two files.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael
>
> Make sense to me too!
>
> Cheers,
>    Guillaume