In a previous post Using ANT to Automate a Build Version Number I talk about incrementing build numbers using ANT. I found this particularly useful when building Mura plugins. Thanks to Steve Good for pointing out a little issue where if you wish to use the build number in naming your ZIP file, my example is incomplete. So to pull in the build number as a property so that you can include it in the ZIP file’s name, you would need to tell ANT to load the property file and read in the properties like so.

<property file="build.properties" />
<zip destfile="${sourceDir}\HelloPlugin-${buildNumber}.zip" basedir="${buildDir}" />

The ${buildNumber} portion gets the value from the build.properties file and uses it as part of the filename. Good catch Steve!