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Adam Schmideg
Adam Schmideg

Reputation: 10850

Automatically append build date to Eclipse plugin version number

Many Eclipse plugins have a version number like 1.2.4-201202017, so the build date (or even the build time) is appended to it. I wonder how it can be achieved automatically. I have the version numbers in feature.xml file, but I don't want to change it and pollute my version control (mercurial) with all the changes in the build date. I thought of using keyword expansion, but it requires some special characters that I don't want to be part of the version number. I build the plugin from within Eclipse so there is no build script to append the date, either.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 626

Answers (2)

Bela Vizer
Bela Vizer

Reputation: 2537

I used to do something like this:

I appended .qualifier at the end of every plugin xml (feature.xml...), my plugin version looked like this: 0.9.0.qualifier

If you open your build.properties file, there should be something like this:

#Enable / disable the generation of a suffix for the features that use .qualifier. 
#The generated suffix is computed according to the content of the feature   
#generateFeatureVersionSuffix=true

uncomment that, build and hopefully it will work.

Upvotes: 3

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97270

If you can get date (in OS) in needed format YYYYMMDD, you can build own keyword for Keywords extension and use it (system command are callable inside keyword definition)

Upvotes: 0

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