Support generating AssemblyVersion attributes in other languages

[SimonCropp]

• VB
  • Command Line
  • MS Build Task
• F#
  • Command Line
  • MS Build Task

[pascalberger]

Update state as mentioned in #633 (comment)

[pascalberger]

VB.NET support in the MS Build Task was implemented in #811.

[pascalberger]

Is F# support still a goal, or can this issue be closed since we have full support for VB.NET reached?

[jpierson]

It looks like some work was done here for F# support. Last I can recall there was some specific handling for language specific project extensions where .fsproj was missing but I'm unable to find it at the moment.

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[gep13]

@pascalberger personally, I am still dubious about this. I would rather see GitVersion as a standalone tool that asserts version numbers. And leave the updating of various files to other, more capable tools, like magic chunks.

[jpierson]

@gep13, magic chunks?

In my case updating assembly info at build time is the sole reason why I starting using GitVersion. Other tools in the past that I've tried with Subversion, TFS, and Git have required too much manual customization and team conventions with the build pipeline whereas GitVersion msbuild tasks just seem to work.

With respect to this issue and the current support for F# I have forked and done what I believe is the necessary work to put support on par with VB.NET and C# languages. I'll be putting in a pull request for these changes soon.

[gep13]

@jpierson sorry, should have linked to it...

https://github.com/sergeyzwezdin/magic-chunks

It is very good at what it does.