On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
What about an external tool for managing version numbers? That would have wide applicability and could be used manually or linked into a build action to encapsulate a given project's policy.
I've been thinking about this slowly for a few months. What I'd like to do is add an option during 'Build dist' that rewrites all '$VERSION = whatever' assignments to a static version. Determined through the usual route of dist_version_from or dist_version.
I share the uneasiness about dynamically inherited versions at runtime - it masks the scenario when two files were installed from different versions of the distribution.
-Ken
