Styles of version checking code in plugins?

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/17 Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com>:
> Is there an idiom for version checking code.  bzr-svn, bzr-git, rebase
> all do it using a file info.py, gtk puts the data directly in
> __init__.py in a different way.  The commonality of the first three is
> probably coincident with Jelmer being a primary author, but it raises
> the question of whether there is or should be a standard model followed
> by all plugins.

There is some discussion of it in
<http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/developers/api-versioning.html>

I don't know if we care where particularly they check it, though
ideally they would check before loading too much.

There are some bugs in
https://edge.launchpad.net/+search?field.text=bzr+plugins you might
want to comment on.



-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>