Nort User Manual
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Release
A NORT release consists in a sequence of steps and interactions with the local project work area, the build system metadata, and various external source code and binary repositories. All types of releases end with the creation of a set of valid release artifacts and the publishing of the artifacts into their corresponding repositories. At the end of the release process, the work area is automatically updated to support the development iteration for the next release.
Release Types
Major
Minor
Patch
Snapshot
Custom
For syntax details see the release command.
Current Version
release
The command queries or modifies release information metadata for the current work area and performs the sequence of steps required to release. For more details about what a release is, and what those steps are, see the "Release" section.
To query the current release information, execute:
release info
To write a new release metadata into the current work area, use:
release major|minor|patch|snapshot|<custom-release-string>
The release increment does the following:
- Increments release metadata in the local workarea.
- Runs all tests.
If at least one test fails, the command restores the previous release metadata states, reports and fails.
If all tests succeed what now?
build
The command creates releasable artifacts (binary distributions or libraries, depending on the nature of the project) for the current version. If the build process is successful, the artifacts are stored in the build area ("target" directory, for Maven) of the current work area.