How does this help? Re: [Python-checkins] r51366 - python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
This makes things more consistent for today, but does it really ease maintenance? Why not just change it to: from sys import version as IDLE_VERSION so that it can be ignored from now on? On 8/18/06, anthony.baxter <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:
Author: anthony.baxter Date: Fri Aug 18 09:29:02 2006 New Revision: 51366
Modified: python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py Log: Updating IDLE's version number to match Python's (as per python-dev discussion).
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--- python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py (original) +++ python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py Fri Aug 18 09:29:02 2006 @@ -1 +1 @@ -IDLE_VERSION = "1.2c1" +IDLE_VERSION = "2.6a0"
On Saturday 19 August 2006 06:24, Jim Jewett wrote:
This makes things more consistent for today, but does it really ease maintenance?
Why not just change it to:
from sys import version as IDLE_VERSION
so that it can be ignored from now on?
After the fuss about changing distutils' version number? :-) I'd very much like to do this, but I figured this was a good first step. -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> writes:
On Saturday 19 August 2006 06:24, Jim Jewett wrote:
This makes things more consistent for today, but does it really ease maintenance?
Why not just change it to:
from sys import version as IDLE_VERSION
so that it can be ignored from now on?
After the fuss about changing distutils' version number? :-)
I'd very much like to do this, but I figured this was a good first step.
Jim Jewett's suggestion could actually be misleading, IMO. There are users, especially on Windows, who run IDLE out of svn or run their own version, but don't build Python. Here's my suggestion: we set IDLE_VERSION="" in idlever.py. If the IDLE hacker wants to set a specific version, he sets that string. I'll change the code so if the string is empty, IDLE will use the Python version, as Jim suggested; otherwise, the user supplied string. -- KBK
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