[Python-Dev] buildno (Was: [Python-checkins] commit of r41907- python/trunk/Makefile.pre.in)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 01:33 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> As you can see, this is done now. The value appears at the Python
> level only for tags, though, because it will be unreliable for the
> trunk and for branches.

Cool, thanks.  I can chuck my local diffs now. :)

> > patchlevel.h seems like the natural place to put this, since any release
> > manager is going to be modifying this file anyway.  PEP 101 should be
> > updated so that updating patchlevel.h be the last commit before an svn
> > export is done (but that PEP needs an overhaul anyway to change the cvs
> > references into svn commands).
> 
> It would still be one level behind: patchlevel.h gets N, then 'svn cp'
> creates the tag, producing N+1. OTOH, for a tag, the revision number
> is nearly irrelevant.

Unless we tagged and then modified the file in that tag as the very last
thing we do before we create the tarball.  Or is that too evil?

-Barry

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