[Pythonmac-SIG] Python Metadata Importer

[Nicholas Riley]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:52:05AM -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> There are still other places where you'll have version expressions.
> 
> PyOpenGL's is the most braindead, it reads the version from *A FILE*.
> 
> Many extensions bring in the version from some extension (i.e. PyObjC).
> 
> I'd go ahead and just ignore anything that isn't a string. 99.74% of  
> modules isn't bad.
> 
> Not many people do the CVS thing these days, and that number is going  
> to get smaller and smaller since people are replacing CVS with  
> Subversion and others.

Subversion supports keyword substitution, too.  Seems reasonable to
support if it's common and 1 line of code, otherwise...yeah, whatever.

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