version.py - is it possible to relicense it to BSD?

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Sun Jun 1 13:13:03 CDT 2008


On 31.05.2008 16:06, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 14:23 +0400, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
>> Thomas, Mercurial crew,
>>
>> First of all I'd like to say big "Thank You" for Mercurial -- we use it
>> in SymPy [1] project.
> 
> Hmm. Killing version.py has been on my todo list for a while. Really,
> all we need is something like this in our build script:
> 
> echo "version = '`hg id -it`'" > version.py
> 
> ..which I frankly find much easier to understand than the contortions
> that we're currently doing.

and would this change work with

python setup.py install

on other systems, like e.g. Windows?




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