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  • Subject: Automatic build number incrementing
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:50:33 +1000

Yep, it's that time of year again where we do our annual "Why the bleep doesn't PB/Xcode have auto-incrementing build numbers yet?!? ...and how can we get around it?".

I've just retried all the old solutions from the list archives, using Perl, shell scripts & Apple scripts, but none of them work with Xcode 2.0, or don't work satisfactorily - i.e. I want to increment CFBundleVersion (and possibly CFBundleShortVersionString & CFBundleGetInfoString), not some arbitrary constant in some source file.

So, any ideas? I've tried exploring Xcode 2.0 in Applescript, but I still can't figure Applescript out (after nearly 10 years of trying... so much for "Joe Blow's scripting language"), and in any case the notes in Xcode's dictionary indicate all values regarding projects are read-only anyway. :(

My next thought is to add a shell script phase to edit the auto- generated Info.plist... but then I have to store a backup of it elsewhere (to avoid it being scraped when Xcode rebuilds), which introduces synchronisation issues et al... not pretty.

Wade Tregaskis (AIM/iChat, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis, ICQ: 40056898, MSN, audio/video iChat & email: email@hidden, Jabber: email@hidden)
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