Improve website building (#34)

* read Avalonia-Version from SharedVersion.props

* remove unused version file

* Updated Avalonia submodule to latest commit

* Updated Avalonia submodule to latest commit

* Updated Avalonia submodule to latest commit

* Some more improvements

Author: timunie

.gitignore

@@ -414,3 +414,5 @@ website/docs/
 src/ApiDocumentation/Help/
 
 artifacts.zip
+
+website/AvaloniaVersion.txt

.gitmodules

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [submodule "Avalonia"]
 	path = ext/Avalonia
 	url = https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia.git
+    branch = release/latest

AvaloniaVersion.txt

@@ -9,12 +9,16 @@ param (
 	[switch]$pack
 )
 
-$version = Get-Content ./AvaloniaVersion.txt
-
 # Update git submodules. 
-git submodule update --init --remote --depth=1 -f
 git submodule update --init --recursive
 
+# The current Avalonia version is stored in SharedVersion.props. Read it and write it out for the website.
+[xml]$xmldoc = Get-Content ./ext/Avalonia/build/SharedVersion.props
+$version = $xmldoc.Project.PropertyGroup.Version
+New-item ./website/AvaloniaVersion.txt -ItemType File -Value  $version -Force
+
+Write-Host "Avalonia version is $version"
+
 # set SHFBRoot
 $env:SHFBRoot = ".\src\packages\ewsoftware.shfb\2025.3.22\tools\"
 
@@ -87,5 +91,5 @@ if($build.IsPresent){
 
 # pack the md-files and version settings if pack switch is on
 if($pack.IsPresent){
-	Compress-Archive -Path ./website/docs, ./website/versionSettings.js -DestinationPath ./artifacts.zip -Force
+	Compress-Archive -Path ./website/docs, ./website/versionSettings.js, ./website/AvaloniaVersion.txt -DestinationPath ./artifacts.zip -Force
 }

build.ps1

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Update submodule to upstream latest commit
+git submodule update --init --depth=1 --remote --force
+
+# Commit changes
+git add .\ext\*
+git commit -m "Updated Avalonia submodule to latest commit"
+
+# Need to fetch submodules recursive
+git submodule update --init --recursive
+
+# The current Avalonia version is stored in SharedVersion.props. Read it and print it to the host.
+[xml]$xmldoc = Get-Content ./ext/Avalonia/build/SharedVersion.props
+$version = $xmldoc.Project.PropertyGroup.Version
+
+Write-Host "Avalonia version is $version"

ext/Avalonia

@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 // @ts-check
 import fs from "node:fs";
 
-function getAvaloniaVerison (){
+function getAvaloniaVersion (){
     try {
-        const data = fs.readFileSync('./../AvaloniaVersion.txt', {encoding: 'utf8'});
-        return data;
+        return fs.readFileSync('./AvaloniaVersion.txt', {encoding: 'utf8'});
     }
     catch (e) {
         console.error(e);
     }
 }
 
 export const versionSettings = {
-    current: getAvaloniaVerison(),
+    current: getAvaloniaVersion(),
 };