[Anthill] Timestamped build versions for Anthill OS.

[Jerry Qassar]

That's a high possibility, since I built it at 8pm before I left and
nothing probably happened until 1am.

I would have expected it to build regardless of there was a change
or not--or at least give me an email to that effect.  Knowing that there
were no changes in the last X hours is good, too.  Is that something
that can be configured or turned on in Anthill OS?

--Jerry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Minick [mailto:eric at urbancode.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:26 PM
> To: Anthill user list
> Subject: Re: [Anthill] Timestamped build versions for Anthill OS.
> 
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> The most common reason for it not to build would be if there wasn't 
> anything checked in between builds - abuild wasn't needed. Is it 
> possible that's what happened here?
> 
> -- Eric
> 
> Jerry Qassar wrote:
> 
> >Mr. Minick,
> >
> >That's very interesting.  Again, I'm surprised it hasn't been asked
> >before.  If Ant can do timestamps in any SimpleDateFormat, it would 
> >seem only natural to provide the same for Anthill.  For example, a
> >date token of some kind:
> >
> >PROJECT_ at DATE@yyyyMMdd at -nightly_(1) <- increment that, if any
> >
> >This could be expanded to allow generic tokens:
> >
> >@DATE at FormatHere@
> >
> >Or whatever format is necessary for such a thing.
> >
> >An option to choose whether to increment at all would also be nice,
> >but if I have to create my own adapter anyway, whatever. :)
> >
> >---
> >
> >Another problem I'm having is that my scheduled build...doesn't.
> >I set my project on the default schedule to start at 1:00am, 1440
> >period, stopped and restarted Anthill, and come back in the morning
> >to find that nothing was built automatically.  Are there any reasons
> >why it won't 'catch' like this?
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Eric Minick [mailto:eric at urbancode.com]
> >>Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 7:16 AM
> >>To: Anthill user list
> >>Subject: Re: [Anthill] Timestamped build versions for Anthill OS.
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi Jerry,
> >>
> >>I can't think of a clean way of doing this without modifying 
> >>the code. 
> >>If you went that route, it would probably be best to write a 
> >>new class 
> >>that implemented the version adapter interface. You could 
> >>probably even 
> >>extend the UrbanCodeVersionAdapter and just override the 
> >>incrementVersion() method. Has anybody done something like this?
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Eric
> >>
> >>Jerry Qassar wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I'm sure this has been asked often, but...
> >>>
> >>>Using Anthill OS, I am trying to create a versioning system
> >>>where versions are performed in the format yyyyMMdd-(build#).
> >>>This is not an issue in Ant, really, because getting the date is a
> >>>trivial process.  However, I don't seem to see a way to do 
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>it _easily_
> >>    
> >>
> >>>in Anthill with the UrbanCodeVersionAdapter.
> >>>
> >>>Using a version number such as 0.9.buildnumber is currently
> >>>not suitable; though I am not necessarily against a 
> major.minor.build
> >>>version string, it's not desired for this project's nightly builds.
> >>>Date-based versions are much more intuitive.  If I enter 
> the current
> >>>date, though, it will eventually do something silly like 20040932.
> >>>
> >>>I would also like to incorporate dates into the 
> forced-build process.
> >>>Again, this seems difficult with Anthill OS.  I think I 
> can compare 
> >>>dates in Ant and increment if same, restart if different, 
> but again,
> >>>the default version adapter doesn't seem flexible enough 
> to do this.
> >>>
> >>>How can I solve this issue satisfactorily?  I'm sure I'm not 
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>the first.
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Jerry Qassar
> >>>SYS Technologies
> >>>http://www.systechnologies.com
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