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| Re: Unique qualifiers for features [message #467896 is a reply to message #467887] |
Mon, 03 August 2009 10:25   |
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Tas Frangoullides wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's really cool that you can get buckminster to use the subversion
> revision number as a plugins version qualifier. I do this with the
> following properties which I borrowed from the MailApp tutorial.
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> qualifier.replacement.*=generator:lastRevision
> generator.lastRevision.format=r{0,number,00000}
>
> The way I understand it the feature version has to be incremented so
> that during software update it is recognized as having new
> functionality. However the feature doesn't change in version control
> even if the plugins it includes do. I'd like to have a nightly update
> site so I'm wondering if there is a way to use use a timestamp for
> features and a revision number for plugins? Or any other mechanism you
> think would work?
>
If you use the same revision scheme for the feature, it's qualifier will be the highest revision found in its
dependencies or in itself. I.e. the feature qualifier will be bumped when one of its dependencies changes even if the
feature itself doesn't change.
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
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