On 11/1/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Dangoor wrote: > > I fixed the Mac eggs... but, won't anyone on Linux run into this > > problem? If they easy_install and it picks up the source zip, will the > > version number come from the zip name or will it come from the setup > > file? > > >From the setup file. It'd probably be a "best practice" for code > that's "in development" in Subversion to have a setup.cfg that sets the > right egg_info flags. Then, I suppose when you branch for a release > you can take those options out of the release branch. That way, if you > develop on the trunk, then a trunk checkout will always be properly > tagged with the version.
But this still means that source distributions like the ones at http://peak.telecommunity.com/snapshots will have the version skew issue if someone actually installs it. Kevin
