All,
Is there a way to setup an auto incremented build number in pilrc or CW? Any suggestions on managing builds using the CW development IDE?
Basically, what I want to do is automatically increment a label/number somewhere in the project that will brand the version of code that gets shipped to our QA team. Preferably accessable by the QA team.
We do some things internally... a popular method is to have an external build script that checks out your sources, overwrites a header file with a build number, then drives the IDE from the command line or VBScript using the COM interface to open the project and build it, and then packages up all the output files into a ZIP file or an output folder.
I've also seen people use the Perl plugin to manage this from within a project, but if you do that, you need to make sure that the script uses the CWSetModDate call to tell the IDE that it's output file was modified. We also had one team write their own IDE compiler plugin to do this, but it still seems better to drive this from outside the project engine as part of a larger release management strategy.
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Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com
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