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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Dec 17 17:09:14 CET 2005

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

that still won't tell you what precise sources had been used to build the binary, as different files simply can be on different revisions, and no single number, in whatever way computed, can give you full information.

A tangential point is that presumably source distributions will be built from an 'svn export' and thus won't have any revision information in, which in turns means that a Python built from such a distribution will not have any revision information. This seems rather far from ideal, as I'd guess most Pythons (e.g. Debian's) are built this way. For a different approach, would it be possible to have a subversion trigger put the revision number into some file in the repository?

Cheers, mwh

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