[openbiblio-dev] Mercurial Dependencies for Version info in Python Packages

[William Waites]

This just came up on IRC, Rufus suggested bringing it up
on the list.

In the ordf/ontosrv/openbiblio python packages, I've
introduced an optional dependency on mercurial so that
package version numbers can be made automatically:

version = '0.5'
try:
    from mercurial import ui, hg, error
    repo = hg.repository(ui.ui(), ".")
    ver = repo[version]
except ImportError:
    pass
except error.RepoLookupError:
    tip = repo["tip"]
    version = version + ".%s.%s" % (tip.rev(), tip.hex()[:12])


This makes pretty version numbers as in,

Finished processing dependencies for ordf==0.5.201.269ac7b7537a


If there's a tag for the current version it will use that (so no
minor version, changeset hash)

Is this a terrible idea?

Cheers,
-w

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