----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 00:54
Subject: Re: propertyfile -> builtin task


> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > well, <propertyfile> lets you increment an entry in a file, so
> > buildnums are done already
>
> Having unique buildnums in a distributed development environment
> involves a little more than incrementing a number in a single local
> property file - my home brewed task simply performs a CVS update
> followed by the increment, followed by a CVS commit.  This still has a
> race condition, but our team is small enough (and not too distributed)
> so that we can live with it.
>

so does my code, thank you very much, using 3 tasks: checkout, increment
checkin. Using cleartool we have no race conditions.




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