mancini
28th January 2005 23:38 UTC

adding build number or time stamp to outfile
Normally it is usefull if some kind of unique string can be added to name of the installer like a build date or number

i tried
OutFile "installer${__TIME__}.exe"
but it contains a space and i would really like to keep track of build numbers intead

i am now investingating making a batch script that would create a file with a number , incrementing it every time it is runned , then running makensis , and reading from the nsi script the number file then appending the number to outfile

any other sugestions ?
would the developers think they can implement something in the lines of this ?

kichik
29th January 2005 00:11 UTC

There already is such a thing. Use:

!define /date NOW "%d %b, %Y"
OutFile "installer${NOW}.exe"

mancini
29th January 2005 00:16 UTC

ok , i assumed the date format can not be configured , thanks

however as for the build incrementing counter , what do you think ?

kichik
29th January 2005 00:23 UTC

I don't think I'll add something that reads from another file and increments. However, I might add math operations to !define. You can use !system to do it for now (write to temporary file and then include it).

mancini
29th January 2005 00:31 UTC

can the time format be defined like the date too ?

yea i did not mean including those operations , math functionality would be great :)

kichik
29th January 2005 00:34 UTC

/date works with both time and date. See !define in the documentation for more information.