Re: [pde-build-dev] Timestamp in build.properties

[Kim Moir <Kim_Moir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vladimir

We use the timestamp as the buildId
and to replace the qualifier in the nightly build bundles.  We set
a value for the  timestamp in our  build's bootstrap shell script.
The timestamp is then passed as an Ant property when we  invoke pde
build.

See
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder/bootstrap.sh?view=markup&pathrev=HEAD

# value used in buildLabel and
for text replacement in index.php template file
builddate=`date +%Y%m%d`
buildtime=`date +%H%M`
timestamp=$builddate$buildtime

buildCommand="$antRunner
... -Dtimestamp=$timestamp ....."

Kim

"Vladimir Grishchenko" <vladgri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject	[pde-build-dev] Timestamp in build.properties

Hi,

Would someone kindly explain what is the purpose of the timestamp property
in the build.properties file? It is set to 007 by default. I'm working
on
build automation for our product and would like to include timestamp as
a
build id in about.mappings but it is not working out of the box for some
reason. I also tried to do it in the postFetch target in the
customTargets.xml as

<target name="postFetch">
                
<replace dir="${buildDirectory}/plugins" value="${timestamp}"
token="@build@">
                
                 <include
name="**/about.mappings" />
                
</replace>
</target>

but ended up with the value 007 as build id, which is how timestamp is
defined in build.properties. Qualifiers of my plugins get substituted with
a
timestamp but this timestamp value seem to be inaccessible outside of the
eclipse.buildScript task. I'm using 3.3.1.1 as builder. I searched here
and
there but could not find an answer so please accept my apologies for asking
this on the dev list. 

Thanks,
Vladimir

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