At 01:09 AM 5/14/2007 +0100, Alexander Schmolck wrote:
>"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >>Here's the rub-- it must be in setup.py and you probably want
> >>to give your package access to it so that it can be reported. It
> >>appears that the current idiom for solving this dilemma is to but a
> >>release.py or version.py file in your package, which is sucked up into
> >>the setup.py file with execfile (see
> >><http://kid-templating.org/trac/browser/trunk/setup.py> for an
> >>example). You then manually maintain the version number in one place
> >>(the release.py file).
> >
> > Yep, this is what most people do.
>
>Is there a standard trick to get the desired svn-revision? Running
>`'svnversion > __svn_version__.py`` in setup.py when a distrubtion-building
>command is issued and then importing that in a hand-maintained
>``version.py``/``release.py`` file should work, but is there a way to check
>whether a setup.py command falls into a certain category?

I don't understand what you're trying to do.  Why do you need the SVN 
revision in a .py file?


> > I actually use a PEAK tool called "version" (peak.tools.version) which
> > maintains a data file with the version, and does targeted 
> search-and-replace
> > operations on the files listed in a configuration file. This is a 
> lot easier
> > when you have documentation files that also need version information
> > updated, and it also avoids the execfile pain.
>
>This sounds more like it, but I don't assume this package is going to be ready
>for an official release anytime soon?

Nope, and it's not documented either.  I stole the idea, however, 
from another open source program that does something quite similar, 
but unfortunately I don't remember the name of that other program.

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