RevUp 1.5

TITLE

RevUp


VERSION

1.5 (27.4.96)


PROXITY SOFTWORKS

Proxity Engineering and Technical Support

Usenet:  pets@amiuni.tynet.sub.org
Fidonet: 2:246/1416.0 (pets)


AUTHOR

  Boris Folgmann

Address:  Friedrichstrasse 7
  71546 Aspach
  Germany

Usenet:  <boris@prox.tynet.sub.org>
Internet: <prx@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de>
WWW:      <http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/
   fachschaft/adressen/bsfolgma.html>
Fidonet:  2:246/1416.41 (Boris)
IRC:      PRX

PGP Fingerprint: 82 84 70 38 26 5E 50 5A
 9C DB CA CA 62 0A 31 52 

Phone:   ++49-(0)7191-23439
Fax:     ++49-(0)7191-2604



DESCRIPTION

RevUp manages version strings following the Amiga standard for
including in own programs, e.g. '$VER: YourTool 2.4 (11.9.95)'.

It's a must for every serious C, Oberon or Assembler programmer,
so have a look at it! Your makefiles together with RevUp will do
all the work for you.

RevUp <version> <projectname> {<dependency>} [REV <revision>]
      [BETA] [C] [ASM] [OBERON] [LOG] [EXTRA] [FULLYEAR]
      [ENVVAR] [TINY]

Required:
 VERSION     : Version number.
 PROJECTNAME : Basename to use for all RevUp files.

Multiple:
 DEPENDENCIES: Files which dates are checked.

Optional:
 REV     : Explicit revision number.
 BETA    : Generate beta information.
 C       : Generate C headerfile (default).
 ASM     : Generate Assembly includefile.
 OBERON  : Generate Oberon definition module.
 LOG     : Interactively add history info to logfile.
 EXTRA   : Generate extra information.
 FULLYEAR: Use four digits for year strings.
 ENVVAR  : Set envvar for archive naming.
 TINY    : Don't print credits.


EXAMPLE

With RevUp SuperTool_rev.h will look like this:

/* C headerfile generated by RevUp 1.5 */

#define VERSION1
#define REVISION5
#define DATE"28.3.95"
#define VERS"SuperTool 1.5"
#define VSTRING"SuperTool 1.5 (28.3.95)\r\n"
#define VERSTAG"\0$VER: SuperTool 1.5 (28.3.95)"
#define VSTR"SuperTool 1.5 (28.3.95)"
#define USER"boris"
#define HOST"prox"
#define TIME"14:57:51"
#define PRGNAME"SuperTool"
#define BASENAME"SUPERTOOL"
#define _CREATIONDATE_"12.7.95"
#define _COPYRIGHTYEARS_ "1995-1996"

User and Host are imported from environment variables.


FEATURES

o RevUp generates and maintains include and header files with
  revision information.

o Basically RevUp is similar to the developer tool BumpRev, but
  it offers a lot of additional features.

o ANSI-C, Oberon and Assembly language supported.

o Multiple dependency files.

o Beta count management for beta versions included.

o Interactive logfile generation.


CHANGES SINCE 1.4 (8.1.96)

NEW: FULLYEAR switch enables four digit year strings.
NEW: Changed Revision storage file format. Betacount storage file
     no longer needed.
NEW: New definitions _CREATIONDATE_ and _COPYRIGHTYEARS_


SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Kickstart 2.04
Workbench 2.0

Workbench 2.1 for localized DOS error messages.


AVAILABILITY

<ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/dev/misc/RevUp1_5.lha>


PRICE

Free


DISTRIBUTABILITY

Freeware (C) 1994-1996 by Proxity Softworks

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