[Python-Dev] Expose Subversion revision number to Python (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Dec 16 14:35:41 CET 2005

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 01:38 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

FYI, this is not the true revision number; it's only the revision number in which the directory was last modified, not the latest revision number within the tree.

Yep, I know. At work, we've gone through many iterations of this, including essentially what you do in setuptools.

I opted against that for several reasons. First, I wanted to keep the patch as simple as possible. Second, I didn't want to depend on Python already being built (i.e. write a Python script to do this). Third, I think most Python developers will just svn up at the top of the source tree, then rebuild, rather than svn up some buried sub-tree, cd back to the top and rebuild from there. At least, that's how I generally work with the Python tree.

-Barry

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