Build number into code? (was: Development practices using Subvers ion)

> > Another question is how to get the release number into the application's
> > about box automatically. What we would like to do is use the tag/label
> > as the release number. Using the example above if a user brought up the
> > about box it would say "Release 1.2". Is there a way to force this
> > tag/label into a 'version.h' file when it is checked out?

> I do not think there are any good ways to get a release
> number placed in
> your source code. It is possible to get the global revision
> number, which
> can be used as a good build ID. But, to have a user-friendly
> value like
> "Release 1.2" you would either just have to key it into a file on the
> branch, or perhaps do some kind of scripting where you parse
> it from the
> branch folder name.

It would be very handy for us to have the revision number automatically
dropped into a file every time an update is performed. I'd then make a
custom build step that would squash the revision number into a little .java
file, which would be built into the product.

We're using TortoiseSVN on the workstations. Is there a good way to do this?

Thanks! --- Eric

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Received on Mon Aug 9 16:38:51 2004