Make use of svn:keywords for versionBuild and versionDate fields about modelicastandardlibrary HOT 7 CLOSED

Modified by dietmarw on 11 Dec 2007 14:56 UTC

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Comment by dietmarw on 11 Dec 2007 15:00 UTC
Actually this is not an defect but an enhancement. So I changed that.

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Comment by otter on 11 Dec 2007 15:36 UTC
Good suggestion. Included it (with date and time)

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Comment by otter on 11 Dec 2007 15:37 UTC
Implementation in 2f9cc70, fbfe067

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Comment by dietmarw on 11 Dec 2007 15:55 UTC
There is one flaw I've just noticed. The '$Date$' and '$Rev$' strings are only updated if the file in which the they are present is changed.

So for example if the the subpackage SIunits.mo was changed but not package.mo itself the versionBuild and versionDate fields won't be updated in package.mo upon commit.

So perhaps we can't use this nice facility for automatically generating a global revision build number and date.

_ However there is some external method svnversion available which could perhaps be integrated in the "build" process. See the yellow box in the section Keyword Substitution of the SVN book._

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Comment by dietmarw on 11 Dec 2007 16:05 UTC
Workaround for the above flaw:

Introduce a small change (e.g. white space) in the package.mo when preparing a build in order to make sure that versionBuild and versionDate are up to date.

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Comment by dietmarw on 14 Dec 2007 15:30 UTC
I think we can leave it for now. I'll close it as "works for me".

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