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

["Vladimir Grishchenko" <vladgri@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks, for some reason it never occured to me that it should be defined prior to launching antRunner.

 

~Vladimir

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From: pde-build-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pde-build-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Moir
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:53 PM
To: Eclipse PDE Build developers list.
Subject: Re: [pde-build-dev] Timestamp in build.properties

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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01/10/2008 04:08 PM

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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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