Nppcommunity npp-community

project files: introduce version info generator

• Modifies all VC 8 & 9 build configurations in the notepadplus project files to use a pre-build event to generate entries for resource VERSIONINFO and include fileversioninfo.h which is built from the NPPCR-VERSION-GEN.bat script. The fileversioninfo.h is included in the project file but added to .gitignore and not tracked.

• The NPPCR-VERSION-GEN.bat uses three possible sources:

  • A packaged release VERSION file.
  • Default value within the script itself (updated when new tags are created)
  • git-describe

The version information generated creates a file version string with the format: Major.Minor.Stage.Revision with stage values of:

0=alpha, 1=beta, 2=release candidate, 3=release

The revision value is the number of commits since the '0' tag of the current stage. So, if a topic branch is 3 commits ahead of vX.Y.Z-rc1 which is 30 commits ahead of xX.Y.Z-rc0 then the Revision value would be 33.

Builds created while working with a dirty directory tree will have the version string amended with '-dirty'.

• VS_FF_PRIVATE, VS_FF_PATCHED, VS_FF_DEBUG, VS_FF_PRERELEASE are set accordingly when git is available, as well as Comment and Private Build strings.

• When git is available multiple builds of the same commit exit early based on the value stored in an untracked tmp file. This feature can be skipped using the --force argument.

[#12 state:needs_ack responsible:npp-community tagged:versioning]

Signed-off-by: Thell Fowler git@tbfowler.name
http://github.com/almostautomated/npp-community/commit/7ed7e5ad04e2...