[Python-Dev] do people use sys._mercurial? (original) (raw)

francismb francismb at email.de
Sun Jan 24 12:40:14 EST 2016


Hi,

On 01/24/2016 01:17 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Linux distros tend to build Python from a tarball rather than a source checkout, for example, which means the build directory doesn't include any VCS details:

Does that helps traceability (reproducibility)? If distros use (?) the tarball from the release why it doesn't have, at least, the information from where that tarball was generated from (the check out point) ?

Regards, francis



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