8.8. Project Snapshots and Releases
ComPact enables you to freeze the current development state of your project into a snapshot: The ComPact project manager will check if any package is locally modified (which must not be as all changes need to be checked-in to be reproducible) and then record all the packages and the associated versions as a snapshot declaration in the snaps directory.
You may also freeze the state of a project as a release. The difference to a snapshot is that every package must be checked out as a released version as a necessary precondition.
Project releases and project snapshots are named mappings from package names to versions. A project release can only contain release versions of packages, while a project snapshot can contain any package version. Thus you can always create a snapshot (if there are no locally modified packages), but you can only create a release if all packages of your project are released.
Freezing project state .
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Snapshot instructs the project manager to create a new project release or snapshot. A snaphot is created if the release | development switch selects development.
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Clear empties the input field for the snapshot name.
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Default Name fills the input field for the snapshot name with a default text.
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Select transfers the selected snapshot name to the input fields for manual editing. You cannot use the same name for two snapshots or releases.
Creating new releases .
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New Release instructs the project manager to create a new project release by creating a new release of every package contained in the project.
Warning This is almost always not what you want to do, so think twice before pressing this button!
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patch | minor | major defines what kind of new release version shall be created for every package.
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Clear empties the input field for the snapshot name.
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Default Name fills the input field for the snapshot name with a default text.
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Select transfers the selected snapshot name to the input fields for manual editing. You cannot use the same name for two snapshots or releases.