[Question]: Support for Preprocessor Symbols in AL-GO Workflows for NextMinor/NextMajor Builds

[ivandjordjevic]

Question

Does the current AL-GO workflow support producing NextMinor and NextMajor artifacts built from the main branch with specific preprocessor symbols for each release? For instance, we’d like to trigger conditional code blocks specific to these builds only and publish those as separate artifacts.

#if NEXTMAJOR
Message('Hello NEXTMAJOR feature!')
#endif

We aim to include conditional logic in the main branch that is only activated for NextMinor or NextMajor builds using preprocessor symbols like NEXTMAJOR, NEXTMINOR, CLEAN25, CLEAN26, etc.

[ivandjordjevic]

Hi @freddydk, appreciate your insights on this.

I was hoping that also Test Next Major.settings.json file would support a property for preprocessorSymbols to support this such as:

"preprocessorSymbols": [
        "NEXTMAJOR"
    ]

[freddydk]

@mazhelez - can they use BuildModes for this?
Or is cleanModePreprocessorSymbols hardcoded for buildmode = cleanMode only?

[mazhelez]

cleanModePreprocessorSymbols setting is currently only used in the "clean" build mode.

But artifacts are not output for the different build modes, but the default one.

[ivandjordjevic]

@mazhelez @freddydk What's the best way to approach this? We used PreprocessorSymbols in our custom Azure DevOps CICD to build different versions from the same codebase and MSFT uses it in the base app as well:

[freddydk]

I guess the request here is:

1. Add the ability to define preprocessorsymbols when running Test NextMajor, Test NextMinor and Test Current workflows.
2. Produce build artifacts in these workflows (like CI/CD)

Is this what you are looking for?

[ivandjordjevic]

@freddydk - Correct, that will work!

[ivandjordjevic]

Is this something we will be able to follow on the Roadmap?

I interested in the timeline, if and when will this be available.

[freddydk]

I added an item to the roadmap this morning, merging this and a few other requests Sendt fra Outlook til iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[ivandjordjevic]

Can you share the card so we can follow?

[freddydk]

https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/projects/521/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=91449371 - a little strange heading, but this is because this workitem will solve some other issues as well (together with this problem)