[pubcookie-dev] Re: [auto-generating windows version files]

[Nathan Dors]

I went in search of people to ask. But no one has tried to fiddle 
with .rc files outside of Visual Studio.

It looks and acts like a text file, and doesn't appear to have a 
checksum in it, so it doesn't surprise me that I can edit it in 
Notepad without Visual Studio complaining afterwards.

-Nathan

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jon Miner wrote:

> Hmm...  I don't know how we would do that, since that file is edited by
> the Windows GUI, so I won't think we could just have a .in file and
> generate it..  The .h file is easy(er?) because it's not actually part
> of the runtime environment..
>
> I mean, theoretically, we just create a .in and reaplce the FILEVERSION,
> PRODUCTVERSION, Comments, FileVersion and ProductVersion ..  But I don't
> know what Windows will think of that. :)
>
> Is there a Windows guru around that has a any ideas?
>
> jon
>
> * Nathan Dors (dors at cac.washington.edu) [051123 14:15]:
>> It just hasn't been proposed. It would be handy.
>>
>> It would be even handier if it was possible (and safe!) to update
>> the version numbers in Win32/PubCookieFilter.rc. We normally have
>> to update the product and file version info for the dll by hand in
>> Visual Studio.
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jon Miner wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any reason we don't have this file auto-generated from
>>> configure?
>>>
>>> jon
>>>
>>> * Nathan Dors (dors at cac.washington.edu) [051123 13:43]:
>>>> Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/webiso/pubcookie/src/Win32
>>>> In directory
>>>> webiso-cvs.cac.washington.edu:/var/tmp/cvs-serv2542/src/Win32
>>>>
>>>> Modified Files:
>>>> 	PubCookieFilter.h
>>>> Log Message:
>>>> changed version numbers to 3.3.0 beta1
>
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