Re: date in manifest

[Kieran Brady]

I tried te build number plugins without any success as it didn't seem happy 
to create a timestamp independently of SCM? I'm using CVS and it wasn't 
happy with it..

Instead I have this horrible hack! Our Maven setup seems to be an ever 
expanding collection of horrible hacks :-/

[...]
<plugin>
   <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
   <executions>
       <execution>
           <id>create-timestamp-file</id>
           <phase>generate-resources</phase>
           <goals>
               <goal>run</goal>
           </goals>
           <configuration>
               <tasks>
                   <tstamp>
                       <format property="time" pattern="dd.MM.yyyy-HH.mm" 
locale="en" />
                   </tstamp>
                   <property name="timestamp" value="${time}-${user.name}" 
/>
                   <touch file=".build.timestamp.properties" />
                   <echo file=".build.timestamp.properties" append="false" 
message="timestamp=${timestamp}" />
               </tasks>
           </configuration>
       </execution>
       <execution>
           <id>delete-timestamp-file</id>
           <phase>clean</phase>
           <goals>
               <goal>run</goal>
           </goals>
           <configuration>
               <tasks>
                   <delete file=".build.timestamp.properties" />
               </tasks>
           </configuration>
       </execution>
   </executions>
</plugin>
[...]

and

[...]

<filters>
   [...]
   <filter>.build.timestamp.properties</filter>
</filters>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Maven Users List" <users@maven.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: date in manifest


You can use the maven-buildNumber-plugin.

http://commons.ucalgary.ca/projects/maven-buildnumber-plugin/howto.html

Near the bottom it tells you how to use a timestamp.

There was some talk of making the build date a more globally  available 
property (negating the need for this plugin), but I don't  know what it 
is, or if it was done.

J

On 30-May-06, at 2:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi  All

If i want to make entry of build date to mani-fest files how do i  do 
that?

i know how to make entry to mani-fest but don't know what maven  variable
has the value for date ??

Anyone knows  it , please advise?





Thanks,
Raghu

--
Julian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Software Engineer
Teaching & Learning Centre
University of Calgary

http://tlc.ucalgary.ca



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