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

Mon Dec 19 15:13:56 CET 2005

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 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)

Shouldn't be writing emails late at night. This should have
read: (which then *don't* 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).

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