Folks: The allmydata.org tahoe project uses setuptools and the darcs revision control tool [1]. We've long since written a custom script to generate the version number from the revision control history. With this we can update our release version number in exactly one place -- the revision control tool -- and the script produces the Python module's __version__ attribute as well as the setup.py's "version" argument. The script also produces the equivalent of "revision numbers" (which in darcs is the count of patches that have been applied since the last release tag). You can see the details here: [2, 3, 4, 5]. The question is: is there a way to extend setuptools to do something like this for revision control tools other than svn? Thank you for your time. Regards, Zooko [1] http://darcs.net [2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/misc/make-version.py [3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/src/allmydata/__init__.py [4] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/setup.py [5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/Makefile