I think it would be better to have the VERSION constant injected by the compiler. Alex wants it in every class but we sometimes forget to put in the include statement or an explicit VERSION constant. And then it's just a build option and the source code doesn't have to be preprocessed.
- Gordon Smith, Adobe -----Original Message----- From: omup...@gmail.com [mailto:omup...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Om Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:20 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [CODE] Short cleanup I like this approach. This is how we bake in application version numbers, build timestamp, etc. while compiling release builds of Flex apps we ship. > Minor issue with this is that now the Version.as files are out of sync > with SVN, could accidentally be checked back in with wrong version > numbers or the like. > > I guess there's the more philosophical question of do we really want > ANT scripts that modify the source code? > We can revert Version.as to its original state after compiling or just not check in the changed Version.as. A carefully constructed build script should do the trick. This way we don't really care if Ant is making changes to the source code. Om On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com>wrote: > Hi, > > ANT can do this quite easily. > > If we change all Version.as files to be like so: > mx_internal static const VERSION:String = "@release@"; > > Then this target will inject the version number into all Version.as files: > <target name="setFlexSDKVersion"> > <replace dir="${basedir}" includes="**/Version.as" token="@release@" > value="${release.version}.${build.number}" /> </target> > > We have these currently in the build file: > <property name="release.version" value="4.6.0"/> <property > name="build.number" value="0"/> > > So that would replace every occurrence of "@release@" with "4.6.0.0". > > Minor issue with this is that now the Version.as files are out of sync > with SVN, could accidentally be checked back in with wrong version > numbers or the like. > > I guess there's the more philosophical question of do we really want > ANT scripts that modify the source code? > > Justin > > > >
