[Numpy-discussion] numpy.distutils compatibility with subversion-1.4

[Darren Dale]

This morning I updated to subversion-1.4. There have been several significant 
enhancements in this release (see 
http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.4_releasenotes.html), and it appears that 
numpy.distutils is not compatible with working copies created with the new 
svn. I submitted a ticket (#276), but I figured it was worth a post here, 
just a "heads up" for anyone not watching the trac website.

$ python setup.py build
Running from numpy source directory.
non-existing path in 'numpy/distutils': 'site.cfg'
No module named __svn_version__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 89, in ?
    setup_package()
  File "setup.py", line 82, in setup_package
    configuration=configuration )
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 144, in setup
    config = configuration()
  File "setup.py", line 48, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('numpy')
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 753, in 
add_subpackage
    caller_level = 2)
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 736, in 
get_subpackage
    caller_level = caller_level + 1)
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 683, in 
_get_configuration_from_setup_py
    config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
  File "./numpy/setup.py", line 8, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('f2py')
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 753, in 
add_subpackage
    caller_level = 2)
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 736, in 
get_subpackage
    caller_level = caller_level + 1)
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 683, in 
_get_configuration_from_setup_py
    config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
  File "numpy/f2py/setup.py", line 39, in configuration
    config.make_svn_version_py()
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1298, in 
make_svn_version_py
    self.add_data_files(('', generate_svn_version_py()))
  File "/home/darren/src/numpy/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1281, in 
generate_svn_version_py
    assert revision is not None,'hmm, why I am not inside SVN tree???'
AssertionError: hmm, why I am not inside SVN tree???

Darren