${APPVERSION} in conf file

[mathzey]

Hi,

The default userdir folder is "default_userdir="${HOME}/.${APPNAME}/dev"

Does something like ${APPVERSION} exists so I can set the default user dir with the current application version?

default_userdir="${HOME}/.${APPNAME}/${APPVERSION}"

Thanks

[bruehlicke]

If you look at the Bourne Shell script in the bin folder of your app
you see that APPNAME is defined as an environmental variable alla
APPNAME=`basename "$0"`

You can also see that the very first script which is being sourced is
$APPNAME.conf

Now, you can have your build system hold a verison number - often this
is in the currentVersion (see
http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqVersionNumber) and you can just have
the Ant build modify your xyz.conf file for each build to hardcode the
current version number into the xyz.conf file. Than this will be
picked up by the app when launched.

Or, the more ugly solution (very ugly) you can start your app via a
pre script which defines some env vars which are needed in this early
stage, but I think the solution to have the Ant build modify the
xyz.conf is way cleaner.

Bernd



On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 3:48 PM, mathzey <address-removed> wrote: