At 08:53 PM 9/14/2010 +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:

Hi,

i'd like to support turning my guess version from hg metadata tool into a setup dependency and thus kill the need to ship a python file.

Currently i just import it + call a function, but that doesn't exactly work if the module is missing and a dependency.

Is there any way to turn it into some sort of plugin/extension that automatically gets installed/used to get that metadata.

See my answer here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2010-August/016690.html And Jason's follow-up here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2010-August/016694.html You may also want to take a look at what hgtools is doing, to get the exact code.