Build correct version of PetraClient

ursrau

My local wiki notes state:

== OpenPetraOrg Setup on pgdbuk ==

/usr/local/openpetraorg/bin30 contains all the dlls and exe files

compile a new version on the development machine:

nant buildRelease -D=0.0.14.5

resulting files:

* u:\openpetraorg.uk\OpenPetraOMUKSetup-0.0.14-5.exe

* U:\openpetraorg.uk\tmp\openpetraorg-0.0.14-5

The build of "nant buildRelease -D=0.0.14.5" says it is successful.

But if I follow it up with "nant startPetraClient", I get the server can't be reached.

If I edit the PetraClient.exe.config in "C:\openpetraorg\csharp\ICT\Petra\Client\_bin\Debug\PetraClient.exe.config"

and change the value of url from localhost to my ip of the pgdbuk server (10.37.2.218)

and re-run the "nant buildRelease -D=0.0.14.5" it succeeds and upon startup of "nant startPetraClient" it tells me

Petra Client/Server Program Version Mismatch!

The Program Version of your Petra Client (0.0.9.0) does not match the Program Version of the Petra Server (0.0.14.5).

A Petra Client cannot connect to a Petra Server unless the Program Versions match. You need to install a Petra Client with the correct Program Version.

I was a bit surprised that the change in Debug config affected the client behaviour, but I assume the nant startPetraClient presumably starts up the Debug and not the release version?

I then also edited the config in the release directory "C:\openpetraorg\csharp\ICT\Petra\Client\_bin\Release\PetraClient.exe.config", just to be sure, but the client that started after a release compile still gave me same error message.

How and where do I tell the "nant buildRelease -D=0.0.14.5" to build the 0.0.14.5 client? Was the edit of the config file done in the right place? Or are they generated and I should have edited it somewhere else?

BTW I also cannot find the innosetup Client Installer called "OpenPetraOMUKSetup-0.0.14-5.exe" according to the local wiki notes, anywhere on the developer machine, nor on the pgdbuk server.

Does the buildRelease not build the Client installer as well?

Thanks for all you did Timo this week.

ursrau

OK, I give up. I have tried editing the line in OpenPetra.build

and set it to read

recompiled the release, and then run nant startPetraClient and this time the error message still said I had a version mismatch, except this itme it said the client was version 0.0.9.0, what ??

my release build line was
nant buildRelease -D:ReleaseID=0.0.14.5
(literally copied and pasted from my nant line)

ursrau

OK, I got a working 0.0.14.5 client now.
Two problems. I think it was trying to write the installer into u: , which I didn't have. Maybe that wasn't a fault, but I changed two things last time, before building again. ;-)

The 2nd the setup was missing the poedit compiler. Which meant it was not proceeding to build the inno installer.

BTW I still get a client version mismatch if I start the client using nant. But installing the client using the new installer it starts up and connects. Great. Now I am ready for tomorrow and can go to sleep. ;-)

pokorra

Good to see you in the forum, Urs! :)

I will explain why things happen as they do:
When you change the file C:\openpetraorg\csharp\ICT\Petra\Client_bin\Debug\PetraClient.exe.config, this will affect the Debug version.
(if you want to change things permanently, you should also change Client\app\PetraClient\app.config, which is copied to Client_bin\Debug\PetraClient.exe.config if that file does not exist yet).
Also when you change the default version number <property name="ReleaseID" in OpenPetra.build, this will affect the Debug version.
That affects that the dll version of the DLLs in Client_bin\Debug.
nant startPetraClient will start the debug version of the client, not the release.

When you run nant buildRelease, this will build the release version, and the dlls will have the version number that you specify on the command line.
The config file for the client for the release is in c:\openpetraorg.uk\setup\petra0300\remoteclientWin\PetraClientRemote.config
The file OpenPetraOMUKSetup-0.0.14-5.exe should be created in the c:\openpetraorg directory?
does the innosetup part in nant releaseBuild show any errors?
ah, I see you found the source of the problem, with poedit.

My idea of the development setup was:
You run both the client and the server locally just using the remote database, so you would not have problems with different version numbers of the dlls.

If you want to connect with the Debug client to the remote OpenPetra server, I have created a simpler way of getting around the issues with the version numbers: just create a file called version.txt in the directory where your PetraClient.exe or PetraServerConsole.exe is, and the content of that file version.txt should just be:

 0.0.14-5

or similar.

I think version 0.0.9 is treated specially, and the server does not refuse to connect to a database that has a different version number in s_system_parameters.

sudo -u postgres psql openpetra -c "INSERT INTO s_system_defaults(s_default_code_c,s_default_value_c) VALUES('CurrentDatabaseVersion','0.0.14-5')"

I hope this answers your questions, I might have overlooked a question, please ask again!