[Distutils] setuptools --tag-revision poposed feature

[Manlio Perillo]

Tres Seaver ha scritto:
> Manlio Perillo wrote:
>> Hi.
> 
>> Currently setuptools only support a ``tag-svn-revision`` option.
>> However I use Mercurial, and I would like to tag hg revisions.
> [...]
> 
>> I don't know if setuptools is still under development (this topic seems
>> quite confused, for me), but can I write a patch, hoping that it will be
>> accepted?
>> Where should I send the patch?
> 
> The setuptools tracker is for "generic" setuptools issues:
> 
>   http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/
> 

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> Depending on the implementation, you might need to patch the plugin used
> to get setuptools to recognize your "under versino control" files with
> Mercurial, e.g.
> 
>   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hg.setuptools
> 
> or:
> 
>   http://bitbucket.org/jezdez/setuptools_hg/wiki/Home
> 

The patch is only required in order to implement an entry point for
setuptools.tag_revision, in addition to setuptools.file_finders

By the way: why there are two packages that do the same thing?


Thanks  Manlio