Hi, I'm still trying to figure out how to handle versioning, including development release versioning in a simple but automated fashion. Basically assuming svn had some hypothetical, $Version$ tag, which would either list the user-chosen version name, plus, if there have been changes since that has been last assigned, a the project-wide svn-release number (e.g. "1.1" or "1.1.dev43"), I'd just put that in setup.py, the project's __version__ = ... string in __init__.py and ideally even the docs. No such thing exists, however and so far I've been doing it by hand, which is clearly suboptimal, especially since I'm also currently writing a howto for scikits authors ( <http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scikits>, very rough at the moment) were I'd like to give best practices.
Basically, if svn had a $Revision$ keyword that worked, I'd just use that in setup.py and the package's __init__ (and possibly the README). Now numpy.distutils.utils contains some code to create a __svn_version__.py file which can then be used in conjunction with a version.py file, in which one specifies the official version number + a release flag (true or false) to get either "1.1" or "1.1.dev43". I've started to detail this at <http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scikits#version.py>, but it seems rather clumsy and also has the disadvantage that one needs to use numpy.distutils in addtition to setuptools, further complicating things (numpy.distutils is also not that well documented IMO, and I haven't got the approach to work as I would want). So I was wondering if there wasn't maybbe a nicer way to achieve this, using just setuptools. I've had a look at <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#id31> but from that it's e.g. not clear to me how one would obtain the right __version__ string in ``project/__init__.py``. I think I might just have missed the right info in the docs, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could walk me through the steps how I can specify at one place that I want to create a proper release with version X or a development release with version X.devY and have this info available everywhere it's needed. cheers, 'as _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
