[RFC] including revision ids/revnos in releases

[John Arbash Meinel]

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One thing I'd like to add to the release process, is somehow embedding
the revision id into the release. This could be a simple as just doing
"bzr version-info --format=python > bzrlib/_version_info.py". Though we
also need to hook up the other code so that it gets printed by 'bzr
- --version'. We already will open a containing branch, the idea is to
just get that same information into the release.

The biggest reason why I'm thinking of it now, is because I want to put
together an installer for win32, which matches the exact revision that
Martin put into the PPA.

However, it wasn't tagged, and we didn't create a 1.6 branch (because it
is only a beta release.) For now, I'll just grab the tarball, but it
would be nice if that information was available at runtime.

John
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