Added options to checkout and build specific tags for Synergy-Core.

Documentation/BuildingOnDarwin.md

@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ Build the project with the following Python script. Packages will be copied into
 ./Scripts/build.py
 ```
 
+To build a specific version of the product, supply the appropriate tag name (or commit hash) as an argument:
+
+```sh
+./Scripts/build.py --checkout 1.13.1.3-snapshot
+```
+
 Similarly, one can clean the project, which resets Git repositories to a clean state:
 
 ```sh

Documentation/BuildingOnLinux.md

@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ Build the project with the following Python script. Packages will be copied into
 ./Scripts/build.py
 ```
 
+To build a specific version of the product, supply the appropriate tag name (or commit hash) as an argument:
+
+```sh
+./Scripts/build.py --checkout 1.13.1.3-snapshot
+```
+
 Similarly, one can clean the project, which resets Git repositories to a clean state:
 
 ```sh

Documentation/BuildingOnWindows.md

@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ Build the project with the following Python script. Packages will be copied into
 python.exe Scripts\build.py
 ```
 
+To build a specific version of the product, supply the appropriate tag name (or commit hash) as an argument:
+
+```sh
+python.exe Scripts\build.py --checkout 1.13.1.3-snapshot
+```
+
 Similarly, one can clean the project, which resets Git repositories to a clean state:
 
 ```bat

Scripts/Detail/Config.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/echo "This module must be imported by other Python scripts."
 
-import configparser, os, platform, re, sys
+import argparse, configparser, os, platform, re, sys
 
 import Detail.Utility as utility
 
@@ -27,12 +27,23 @@ class Configuration():
    productPackageName = "-".join( [ productName, productVersion, productStage ] ).lower()
    productRepoPath    = ""
    productBuildPath   = ""
-   productVersionPath = ""
+   productCheckout    = ""
 
    # Constructor
 
    def __init__( self, configPath ):
 
+      def programOptions( self ):
+
+         parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description =
+            "This utility builds the Synergy-Core binaries. The product version is extracted from the most recent Git tag. One can also build older versions "
+            "by checking out specific git tags, see options below." )
+
+         parser.add_argument( "--checkout", dest = "productCheckout", help = "Checkout and build a specific Git tag (or commit hash) for the Synergy-Core submodule." )
+
+         for key, value in vars( parser.parse_args() ).items():
+            setattr( self, key, value )
+
       def loadConfiguration( self, configPath ):
 
          utility.printItem( "configPath: ", configPath )
@@ -87,7 +98,6 @@ class Configuration():
 
          resolvePath( self, "productRepoPath" )
          resolvePath( self, "productBuildPath", mustExist = False )
-         resolvePath( self, "productVersionPath", mustExist = False )
          resolvePath( self, "binariesPath" )
          resolvePath( self, "toolsPath" )
          resolvePath( self, "libQtPath" )
@@ -116,6 +126,8 @@ class Configuration():
 
          self.updateProductVersion()
 
+      programOptions( self )
+
       utility.printHeading( "Loading configuration..." )
 
       loadConfiguration( self, configPath )
@@ -135,26 +147,19 @@ class Configuration():
 
    def updateProductVersion( self ):
 
-      if not os.path.exists( self.productVersionPath ):
+      os.chdir( self.productRepoPath )
 
-         utility.printWarning( "Unable to determine product version at this time; version file was missing:\n\t", self.productVersionPath )
+      lastTag = utility.captureCommandOutput( "git describe --tags --abbrev=0" )
 
-      else:
-
-         versionFile = open( self.productVersionPath, "r" )
-         versionData = versionFile.read()
-         versionFile.close()
-
-         versionParts = re.findall( r'set \(SYNERGY_VERSION_\w+ "?(\w+)"?\)', versionData )
+      matches = re.search( "v?(\d+(?:\.\d+)+)-(\w+)", lastTag )
 
-         if len( versionParts ) == 0:
-            utility.printError( "Failed to extract version information." )
+      if not matches:
+         utility.printError( "Unable to extract version information from Git tags." )
          raise SystemExit( 1 )
 
-         self.productVersion = ".".join( versionParts[ 0:-1 ] )
-         self.productStage = versionParts[ -1 ]
+      self.productVersion = matches.group( 1 ) 
+      self.productStage = matches.group( 2 )
       self.productRevision = utility.captureCommandOutput( "git rev-parse --short=8 HEAD" )
-
       self.productPackageName = "-".join( [ self.productName, self.productVersion, self.productStage, self.platformVersion ] ).lower()
 
       utility.printItem( "productVersion: ", self.productVersion )
@@ -162,6 +167,8 @@ class Configuration():
       utility.printItem( "productRevision: ", self.productRevision )
       utility.printItem( "productPackageName: ", self.productPackageName )
 
+      os.chdir( self.toplevelPath )
+
    # Property list
 
    def propertyList( self ):

Scripts/build.py

@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ def configureSubmodules():
 
    utility.runCommand( "git submodule update --init --remote --recursive" )
 
+   if config.productCheckoutTag:
+      os.chdir( config.productRepoPath )
+      utility.runCommand( "git checkout " + config.productCheckoutTag )
+      os.chdir( config.toplevelPath )
+
    statusAfter = utility.captureCommandOutput( "git submodule status" )
    print( statusAfter )
 

Scripts/config.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
    productName        = Synergy
    productRepoPath    = ./Synergy-Core
    productBuildPath   = ./Synergy-Core/build
-   productVersionPath = ./Synergy-Core/cmake/Version.cmake
 
 [Windows]
 

Synergy-Core

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ede272185d5acae6466bfd19edeb8efed95ac429
+Subproject commit 9c8a1c1e3d2c66ea535f6d91ce59f99c588ff2fc