On May 19, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
What is the recommendation for specifying version information in a
way which is compatible with all these new tools?
My personal recommendation is to put the version information in a
flat text file and have your setup.py read that flat text file
instead of importing a Python package, e.g.:
http://allmydata.org/trac/zfec/browser/zfec/setup.py?rev=285#L88
http://allmydata.org/trac/pyutil/browser/pyutil/setup.py?rev=141#L44
Another approach is to have the revision control be the single store
of versioning information, and read it out of revision control
whenever your setup.py runs. I believe I've already submitted one
patch for each of these techniques for Nevow:
http://divmod.org/trac/ticket/2699
A third approach is require setuptools and rely on setuptools's
implementation of the second approach -- reading versioning
information from your revision control tool. That one has obvious
disadvantages (e.g. The Big Two: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/
issue54 (be more like distutils with regard to --prefix=) and http://
bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53 (respect the PYTHONPATH)), but it
has the advantage that the implementation of this feature is not in
your setup.py but is in setuptools or in a setuptools plugin such as
setuptools_hg or setuptools_bzr.
:-)
Regards,
Zooko
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