[Contrib: Evaluation System] EVALSYS APP VERSION in admin page footer

[Jim Eng]

Thanks, David.  That looks good.

It looks like this task would add a new line to that file each time the source is compiled.  Is that correct?  If so, does it present any problem?

In GB2, people accidentally check in the revised VERSIONS.txt file from time to time.  I think that's more of an annoyance to the core developers, rather than a problem.  I'm wondering if there's a problem checking with people checking in revisions to version.properties?   

Jim




On Jun 2, 2011, at 1:42 PM, David Horwitz wrote:

> This is the entry in the kernel component-manager pom that writes the kernel version:
> 
> 
>            <plugin>
>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
>         <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
>         <version>1.2</version>
>         <executions>
>           <execution>
>             <phase>compile</phase>
>             <configuration>
>               <tasks>
>                 <echo message="version.kernel=${project.version}${line.separator}" file="${project.build.outputDirectory}/org/sakaiproject/config/version.properties" />
>                 <tstamp>
>                 <format property="timestamp" pattern="dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss Z" />
>                 </tstamp>
>                 <echo message="buildTime.kernel=${timestamp}" file="${project.build.outputDirectory}/org/sakaiproject/config/version.properties" append="true" />
>               </tasks>
> 
>             </configuration>
>             <goals>
>               <goal>run</goal>
>             </goals>
>           </execution>
>         </executions>
>       </plugin>
> 
> On 06/02/2011 07:30 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:
>> 
>> They *used* to use a shell script added in (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-394)
>> 
>> Now they're just using a static file "VERSION.txt" (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-710)
>> 
>> Though I'd supported the ant task that took care of the shell script and the versioning (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-521)
>> 
>> This has to be set somehow while maven is running though, because this information is lost afterward. It would be nice to do it automatically though.
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
>> GB2 uses an ant-task in their build process to move a file containing the version info into a place where it can be accessed by the class loader.  
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>>  
>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Jim Eng wrote:
>> 
>>> Three items are shown in the footer: EvalConstants.APP_VERSION, EvalConstants.SVN_REVISION and EvalConstants.SVN_LAST_UPDATE.  
>>> 
>>> The values of EvalConstants.SVN_REVISION and EvalConstants.SVN_LAST_UPDATE come from the svn metadata.  The value of EvalConstants.APP_VERSION is hard-coded.  We could change EvalConstants.APP_VERSION to show the svn URL, which includes the "version number" if it's a tag or branch, and the word "trunk" if it's trunk. Or the value could be set dynamically by parsing it out of that URL.  I will look to see if there's some other way of getting the app version from some reliable source.     
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>>  
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