version in setup.cfg

[Jasiu]

Hi guys,

I have a question about setup.py and setup.cfg:

I work in a company and we use Subversion to keep our stuff. We have a
post-commit rule that does the following: whenever there is a commit
to /tags/ directory, a binary package is built automatically. The
tag's name is the new version of the package, i.e. tag names are
something like /tags/1.5.2, /tags/1.2.3 etc. We use setup.py to create
packages. In setup.py we set the version of the package by specifying
'version' keyword argument to setup function. We have automated builds
and our post-commit script does kind of ugly regexp hack and replaces
string "version='...'" with version that is guessed from the tag name.
And I wonder: It would be much cleaner if the version could be placed
in the setup.cfg file. Is that possible?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi guys,

I have a question about setup.py and setup.cfg:

I work in a company and we use Subversion to keep our stuff. We have a
post-commit rule that does the following: whenever there is a commit
to /tags/ directory, a binary package is built automatically. The
tag's name is the new version of the package, i.e. tag names are
something like /tags/1.5.2, /tags/1.2.3 etc. We use setup.py to create
packages. In setup.py we set the version of the package by specifying
'version' keyword argument to setup function. We have automated builds
and our post-commit script does kind of ugly regexp hack and replaces
string "version='...'" with version that is guessed from the tag name.
And I wonder: It would be much cleaner if the version could be placed
in the setup.cfg file. Is that possible?

I don't think so. But there are several other options:

- install pysvn & use that in setup.py to extract the tag from the
working-copy, making it part of version

- instead of the dirty hack, use an a little bit less ugly hack to
write that version to a file in the WC, and open & read that within setup.py

Diez

 

[Jasiu]

I don't think so. But there are several other options:

I was afraid of that.

Thanks anyway!

Mike