erik quanstrom <[email protected]> once said:
> On Mon Dec 2 19:51:11 EST 2013, [email protected] wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:12 AM, erik quanstrom <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > python's requirements are a proper subset of go's, since building go
> > > requires
> > > python be installed.
> >
> > No, it doesn't. Using mercurial to clone the tree requires python,
> > building Go does not require python, nor mercurial.
>
> have you tried in the last couple of months? some changes were made
> that do some repo checking. building requires hg now.
The standard way to get around this requirement is by
placing a VERSION file in the top-level directory.
It can contain any string but it's usually something like:
devel +7326da92ff4d Mon Dec 02 09:06:41 2013 +1100
Cheers,
Anthony
