Re: [Geotools-devel] Adding some version info to geotools artifacts

[Jody G. <jod...@gm...>]

Secondary patch looks good :-) Will need to udpate the rename.xml ant script to avoid messing wtih GeoTools class now?
Jody

On 17/11/2010, at 10:59 AM, Justin Deoliveira wrote:

> OK, I added a secondary patch that adds this info to the GeoTools class:
> 
> http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/attachment/52238/GEOT-3319-GeoTools.java.patch
> 
> I will treat this as a secondary patch though as it might require some more discussion. But the initial patch is pretty safe so I will go ahead with that.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Jody Garnett <jod...@gm...> wrote:
> If I can make a suggestion; can we also include the information in the
> GeoTools class; there is a record of what version is in use that
> people can call dynamically.
> 
> The best would be if we could look up the manifest information; right
> now we update the GeoTools class as part of the release process.
> 
> Jody
> 
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Justin Deoliveira <jde...@op...> 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
> > Thanks.
> > -Justin
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