[Python-Dev] Expose Subversion revision number to Python

[Michael Hudson]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> that *still* won't tell you what precise sources had been used
> to build the binary, as different files simply can be on different
> revisions, and no single number, in whatever way computed, can
> give you full information.

A tangential point is that presumably source distributions will be
built from an 'svn export' and thus won't have any revision
information in, which in turns means that a Python built from such a
distribution will not have any revision information.  This seems
rather far from ideal, as I'd guess most Pythons (e.g. Debian's) are
built this way. For a different approach, would it be possible to have
a subversion trigger put the revision number into some file in the
repository?

Cheers,
mwh

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