[Anthill] build number

[Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad]

this works great when building only a project, but it breaks when 
building a dependency group. It builds the same buildnumber many times 
(looks like "one buildnumber per day")

- asbjørn

Maciej Zawadzki wrote:

> Asbjorn,
>
> Some information on this is provided in the FAQ -- 
> http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/faq.jsp.  Let me know if you 
> need more info.
>
> Q: What general fomat does the Anthill version file use?
> A: The general format of the version file is:
>
> <prefix><buildNo><postfix>
>
> where
>
> <prefix>can be any String like "MyProduct" or "1.0."
> <buildNo>has to be a number like 1 or 50 or 1150
> <postfix>can be any non numeric String like " alpha" or " beta"
>
> So if you have a version such as 1.2.3.4, then 1.2.3. is the <prefix>, 
> 4 is the <buildNo> and the <postfix> is an empty string. The 
> UrbanCodeVersionAdapter looks for the build number starting at the end 
> of the string and working its way forward. The build number is the 
> first numeric portion that it encounters. So you could have a version 
> such as 1.2.3.1150 alpha and then the build number would be 1150.
>
> Q: What format does the Anthill version file use when building on a 
> branch?
> A: If you are on a branch, then the <prefix> must contain the name of 
> your branch as specified in the RepositoryAdapter properties page. 
> This is mostly because we could not figure out how to assign version 
> numbers to multiple branches while making sure that each version 
> number was unique across all branches Including the branch name in the 
> version number solves this problem. We're definitely open to other 
> ideas here.
>
> So, if you are using CVS, and you have a BRANCH called "My_Release_1", 
> you would configure the RepositoryAdapter to check out that branch. In 
> the RA properties page there is a field that allows you to specify the 
> branch that Anthill will build. Then, the version file in that branch 
> will need to contain a string like the one below: My_Release_1 
> 1.0.1150 or My_Release_1 1150
>
> Anthill will then increment the last numeric portion that it finds -- 
> 1150 in each case.
>
> We usually have multiple branches of a project in Anthill at the same 
> time. We have a separate version file for each branch. The TRUNK may 
> have a version file called MyProject.version and the My_Release_1 
> branch may have a version file called MyProject.My_Release_1.version. 
> Each version file would have different version string inside.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --Maciej
>
>
> Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad wrote:
>
>> hi!
>>
>> I have a problem with the build number. It does not increase each 
>> time we do a build. Does anybody know the conditions for increasing 
>> the build number, and how to make sure that each build gets a 
>> different buildnumber?
>>
>>
>> - asbjørn
>
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