[Python-Dev] do people use sys._mercurial?

[francismb]

Hi,

On 01/24/2016 01:17 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
> Linux distros tend to build Python from a tarball rather than a source
> checkout, for example, which means the build directory doesn't include
> any VCS details:
>

Does that helps traceability (reproducibility)? If distros use (?) the
tarball from the release why it doesn't have, at least, the information
from where that tarball was generated from (the check out point) ?

Regards,
francis