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I am distributing my .ipa via Xcode 4.5 archiving mechanism over the air to my testers. Found out, that earlier the automaticly generated plist-file contained the bundle-version of the current build.

I'd like to get this bundle-version into my plist automatically, when exporting the archive to my desktop, because thats a main action I do very often.

Is there an easy way to add the bundle version to the plist automatically or do I have to write a shell script, which opens the .ipa and reads the information to write it to the plist later?

I want to use this, to send my beta testers reminders to update the beta app, when the version differs to the installed bundle version.

Any ideas or hints?

Asciiom
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Sascha Manuel Hameister
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  • If you check the `Save for Enterprise Distribution` checkbox while saving .ipa from Organizer, you will still get an automatically generated .plist file that includes build version, so I'm not sure I understand what you are asking here. – Filip Radelic Sep 06 '12 at 01:08
  • I exactly use the "saving for Enterprise Distribution" with newest beta XCode 4.5. The plist generated looks not contains the bundle-version... metadata bundle-identifier my.bundleIdentifier kind software title Name (Sorry, don't know how to format as code in stackoverflow) – Sascha Manuel Hameister Sep 06 '12 at 08:31
  • That's weird. Did you check if your app's Info.plist file contains bundle version? You can wrap code into `\`` chars, but it will always be single line in comments. – Filip Radelic Sep 06 '12 at 10:50
  • My bundle version in the App-Info.plist is `1.4.0 (x) Dev`. Have you tried it also with XCodes 4.5 Preview version? – Sascha Manuel Hameister Sep 06 '12 at 11:30

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I fixed it!

Till now I used CFBundleVersion for my version string, but CFBundleShortVersionString is set into plist, which was empty the whole time.

Thank you for your support. Hope other people will fix this issues faster from now. :-)

Sascha Manuel Hameister
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The bundle version string specifies the build version number of the bundle. This value is a monotonically increased string, comprised of one or more period-separated integers.

There is your problem. You can't have parentheses or letters in your bundle version, only numbers and dots.

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  • Hum, I was hopeful, readingt your msg. I set my version to `1.4.0` now, but same result. No Bundle-version in the plist. Thx for the version hint at all. I will mind it in future. Any further ideas, whats going wrong here? – Sascha Manuel Hameister Sep 06 '12 at 12:57