[stringtemplate-interest] [ST4 Beta-4] Retrieving version information

[Terence Parr]

Ah. so in the jar it's okay. cool. I tried to test that, but found javap not in my PATH on the Linux box :(
Ter
On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Oliver Zeigermann wrote:

> Sources remain untouched
> 
> Am 12.02.2011 20:26 schrieb "Terence Parr" <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>:
> > didn't seem to work.
> > 
> > public final static String VERSION = "@version@";
> > 
> > in src zip.
> > 
> > Ter
> > On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:27 AM, Oliver Zeigermann wrote:
> > 
> >> Using ant that is fairly easy. I attached a patch for the ant build
> >> file that replaces every @version@ inside the source with the version
> >> information from build.properties (no idea if this is the best
> >> solution, though).
> >> 
> >> E.g. adding
> >> 
> >> public final static String VERSION = "@version@";
> >> 
> >> to ST.java
> >> 
> >> would result to
> >> 
> >> public final static String VERSION = "4.0b4";
> >> 
> >> in the compiled classes.
> >> 
> >> Hope that helps
> >> 
> >> - Oliver
> >> 
> >> 2011/2/11 Udo Borkowski <ub at abego-software.de>:
> >>> Hi Ter,
> >>> 
> >>> I agree this will only work if the version information (text and/or boolean flag) is really in sync with the version control system (i.e. requires automated solution). Not sure how hard this is to implement.
> >>> 
> >>> Regarding the test for the version: I haven't thought of this yet, but it would definitely be useful.
> >>> 
> >>> Udo
> >>> 
> >>> On 11.02.2011, at 00:55, Terence Parr wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hi Udo,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Seems like the more common use case would be to test the version number and do something different to avoidable or use a feature only if a particular version is available. but we can't test values in the template so it would have to be a Boolean set for the various versions; might be hard to add one for every random version we make.
> >>>> 
> >>>> <if(v4_0b1)>...<endif>
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hmm... also I would have to figure out how to make ANT alter my software automatically to include the right version string; it would have to know about perforce version control and so on. setting this by hand would be a problem as it would get out of sync.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Ter
> >>>> On Feb 7, 2011, at 6:25 AM, Udo Borkowski wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> what about providing "version information" to be used in a template?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I got this idea because I was using an older version of the engine (Beta3 instead of Beta4) without noticing.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> One could then use this information e.g. to include a text like
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> "(Rendered with StringTemplate 4.0 Beta-4)"
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> into generated web pages etc.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> One way to achieve this without adding "build-in" attributes etc. could be extending the class ST.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> E.g. add the following method to the class ST:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> public String getVersionText() {
> >>>>> return "StringTemplate 4.0 Beta-4";
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Then one could use
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> (Rendered with <{ }.versionText>)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> in a template to render
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> (Rendered with StringTemplate 4.0 Beta-4)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Udo
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
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