> We could add another value in the tuple that specifies the VCS:
> ('CPython', 'branches/release25-maint', '61464', 'svn'). I agree that
> VCSs are not universally the same, but the concept of a revision is
> universal.Actually, I think that's not the case. For bzr, the usual way of identifying a revision is by revision number, which, however, is not unique within a project, as each branch will use contiguous integers for numbers. There are also unique identifications - so a bzr revision has actually two numbers. More general, in a DVCS, it is not possible to access the revision being referred to by such a tuple. For sys.subversion, if [0]=='CPython', then you could go to svn.python.org. For a DVCS, the revision being identified may not be publically available, or may not live on a host that you can infer from your proposed sys.revision. For cloned branches, I wonder how sys.revision[1] would be computed. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
