[TSVN] Re: Feature Request: SubWCRev reads a config file...

Peter Mounce <pete@molehole.org> writes:

[...]
>> May I ask what you need that for?
>
> Yes ;) I'd like to be able to specify the version number in just one
> place. So $V_MAJOR$ would be major version number, $V_MINOR$ ... etc.
> Then tell the tool to find-and-replace the tokens in files where the
> tokens are known to be.
>
> This would make the release procedure easier, in that the person doing
> it doesn't have to edit the version number for the release in more than
> one place. Currently, I think the numbers appear in:
> * src/version.in
> * src/TortoiseSVNSetup/VersionNumberInclude.in.wxi
> * src/TortoiseSVNSetup/MakeMsiSub.in.bat (twice) (they'd be in there so
> the rename from Setup.msi to TortoiseSVN-x.y.z....msi happens automatically)
> * www/version.txt
>
> Ideally, they'd only be in one place, and the first thing the build
> script would do is read the file and substitute, so the builder person
> doesn't run the risk of forgetting in one or more places. I guess it's
> not a need, but a nice-to-have...?

If you were using linux, your tool would be called configure / autoconf /
automake. This uses the M4 macro processor.

As a side note: You could use the C preprocessor, which is part of
VS.NET.

Jens

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