On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:27, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > [..] >> However, it would be nice if setuptools/distribute supported something like >> this out of the box. The important thing is to have exactly one place to set >> the package's version number. > > For metadata fields like "version", one option I am working on in > Distutils itself is to have a complementary section in the static > setup.cfg file, where you can set some fields: > > [setup] > name=foo > version=1.9.8 > > Once setup() is run, the Distribution class will look at this file, to > complete the options provided by code; > > Of course this supposes that the version is not calculated by some > code (like in your solution). But I think a plain, non-development > version, can be static.
What you want is then a simple way of getting this version number into the python code. Any recommendations for that? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
