Re: Updating a Build Number
Re: Updating a Build Number
- Subject: Re: Updating a Build Number
- From: Jeffrey Oleander <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:34:08 -0700 (PDT)
> On Fri, 2009/06/26, Seth Willits <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2009 Jun 24, at 07:58, Scott Tooker wrote:
>> If you are just looking to increment a simple
>> build number, I'd strongly encourage you to
>> look at the agvtool tool provided as part of
>> Xcode Tools (man agvtool). This provides a
>> convenient way to easily version different
>> builds of you application without having to
>> manually edit your Info.plist.
>
> I just looked at this (I read Chris Hanson's blog
> since the man page wasn't clear enough for me).
> I think it's a bit silly. Why should I have to
> quite Xcode just to increment the build number?
> Any time I build my "Release" configuration, I
> simply want the build number to increase.
> I don't see why it should be any more complicated
> than that (at least in my situation), so I
> created that simple build script. Xcode doesn't
> like it though...
Yah, different people have different things in mind.
I'm used to working with 150 other developers on the
same software product. We incremented the build/
version number for every integration build, and
alpha and beta testers' bug reports were tied to
that. (Hence our versions are something like
3.15.2.1234 with the first dewey decimal number
major feature release number, the second minor
features and major bug releases, the third custom
and pre-release bench-mark builds, and the 4th
every-day pre-release builds.)
Some places, apparently, have a completely different
internal development version number system from the
ones they stick on released product.
The agvtool and scripting are meant to give us the
flexibility to handle it pretty much the way we
want, but it's a little fragile.
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