How to tell to bzr version of plugin?

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu Oct 4 03:11:49 BST 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 07:13 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:


> I believe it uses:
> 
> version_info = (0, 0, 1, 'dev', 0)

yes

> I would have thought it would also use
> 
> __version__ = '0.0.1.dev.0'

it does not.

> But it certainly uses the 'version_info' style.

I wanted to be able to depend on the structured data of version_info,
and in the spirit of DRY, having string formatted versions in each
plugin is redundant, and - noting how Martin changed the formatter in
bzr in 0.91 - prone to skew. (BTW, what was that change for?)

-Rob
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