[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: progress report (PEP 385)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> So are you saying we should drop the idea of a revision value
> altogether, or just embrace the differences and add a sys.mercurial
> attribute?

That's what I would propose. It should be a best-effort(*) approach at
providing all information that is needed to really find the source
used for the specific version.

Regards,
Martin

(*) even for svn it was best-effort only in case there were local
modifications.