TeamCity without MSBuild

[colinbowern]

Can we get detection and output of TC data in the executable? PSAKE works well for us as a build script and it would be great to have it detect in the same way xunit console does. Today I use the following workaround

Properties {
    $VersionCalculator = (Get-ChildItem -Path Packages -File "GitFlowVersion.exe" -Recurse).FullName
}

Task CalculateVersion -Description "Calculates the version information based on current location in source control repository" {
    $RawVersionInfo = Exec { [string](& $VersionCalculator) }
    $VersionInfo = ConvertFrom-Json $RawVersionInfo
    TeamCity-SetBuildNumber $VersionInfo.ShortVersion    
}

[SimonCropp]

use the exe?

[colinbowern]

@SimonCropp that is what we are doing now, just wondering if the MSBuild task has to be the only place the build server detection is baked into. If it were in the EXE as well then it would remove the need for me to capture and parse the output.

[JakeGinnivan]

I noticed this, there is a bunch of stuff which is only done in the AssemblyInfoTask.

Normalizing the git directory to create branches/tags is one of them

[JakeGinnivan]

Normalisation has been done for exe, and #101 will sort the rest of this issue

[JakeGinnivan]

This has been resolved