[Python-checkins] commit of r41744 - in python/trunk: Doc/api/init.texModules/getbuildinfo.c Python/sysmodule.c

["Martin v. Löwis"]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
>>M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>>>It's the users of tools which use the final distributed versions
>>>which would run into problems they can't easily solve.
>>
>>In the final distributed version, this code is dead: there won't
>>be a .svn directory to get information from.
> 
> 
> Sorry, I was talking about compiled distributions versions.

Neither was I: I was talking about the final distributed
source versions. They will not contain a .svn directory,
as they will be created through svn export.

> These will contain the build number, right ?

My current view is that the answer to this question is "no";
the build number should go away.

> Or should we tell people to only distribute compiled versions
> that were created from the source distribution ? (which then
> have the .svn dir and thus no issues)

No, the source distribution will not be a subversion working
copy, just as it previously never was a CVS sandbox (i.e.
it never contained a CVS directory).

Regards,
Martin