On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Recently on geoserver-devel we have been discussing adding some
> versioning
> > information to build artifacts. This is most important for geoserver when
> it
> > comes to nightly builds because currently when someone grabs a nightly
> build
> > they really have no idea what version of geotools is included in it. I
> would
> > think conveying such information would be of use to any project that
> depends
> > on geotools, not just geoserver.
> > So, I would like to make some modifications to the geotools build process
> to
> > add this information. Things to capture at this point are the svn
> revision,
> > the build timestamp, and the project version. Open to ideas of what else
> to
> > include.
> > So the main idea will be to add this information to the manifest of each
> > individual jar file that gets created. So a resulting manifest would look
> > like this:
> > Manifest-Version: 1.0
> > Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
> > Created-By: Apache Maven
> > Built-By: jdeolive
> > Build-Jdk: 1.5.0_19
> > Project-Version: 2.7-SNAPSHOT
> > Build-Timestamp: 20101116-1134
> > Svn-Revision: 36212
> > The second part is to add VERSION.txt file to all the build release
> > artifacts. Which will look something like this:
> > version: 2.7-SNAPSHOT
> > svn revision: 36212
> > build date : 20101116-1134
> > What do people think. I created a patch here that does the work:
> > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-3319
>
> I did not inspect the patch myself but I like what I see result wise. +1!
>
> Only one question: what happens if you run that with a git checkout?
> Does it work anyways, or it ends up breaking the build?
> If it's the latter, can we activate svn revision number tracking with
> a profile?
>
Good question. It results in an svn revision of -1. But won't break the
build at all. So with this patch any devs building from a git repo won't
have svn information... do you think that is ok?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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