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 gen-versioninfo.h which is built from the GIT-VS-VERSION-GEN.bat script. The gen-versioninfo.h is included in the project file and added to .gitignore.

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

  • A packaged release VERSION file.
  • Default value within the script itself
  • git-describe

The version information generated creates a file version string with the format: Major.Minor.Fix.Build

The build value is the number of commits since the '0' tag of the current release fix release stream.

If a tag's build value matches the number of commits from the '0' tag of the current stage and HEAD is clean then VS_FF_PATCHED will be flagged but VS_FF_PRIVATE will not be. This allows a maint patch to be different than a commit that is a similar number of commits away from the patched build to be identified.

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

The script can be run with --test from cmd.exe when msysgit is available to illustrate how the current settings will build the header.

• VS_FF_PRIVATE, VS_FF_PATCHED, 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/8169025fe449...