HubBot command to see time of last core update

[dugwyler]

It would be useful to have a command that would be able to tell us when the core on a hub was last updated.

This could be done by comparing the date/time of twcore.jar at startup with the date of the last update, held in a hidden file. If the dates differed, the newer date would overwrite the old one. In either case the date would be stored, to be displayed when a HubBot command is used.

[Maverick]

Unfortunately Subversion doesn't support a repository-wide $Revision$ variable that is expanded upon commit (like CVS has).

I suggest creating a new !version command in the Hubbot with something like "::$VERSION$::" that's replaced with revision information by the shell script that exports TWCore.
Unfortunately this also has to be done in the windows .bat export scripts so the text is also replaced on windows.

[subby]

im not sure what you mean by that update thing but one version check could be done just cheking the date when twcore was compiled?

long File.lastModified()

am i completely wrong about this

[Maverick]

Yes, this is an option. However, we like to work with Subversion revision numbers instead of dates as that's more easier for us.

[dugwyler]

Both would be ideal, the SVN revision number being more helpful, but really the date on the jar would be better than nothing. Until we can figure out a clean way to get the SVN revision (something hard to integrate into "general" TWCore running on other zones w/o SVN) I'd say this is a good substitute.

[Maverick]

subby is no longer on the tw bot dev team

[Maverick]

This doesn't need any priority.

[Maverick]

Already done in the !version command (HubBot.handleVersion()).
This only works for the version of the HubBot.java, not the entire core, as the $Revision$ keyword only works for the file it's in, not the entire repository. (It's not possible to get the latest revision of an entire repository.)