[PATCH 2 of 2] version: add extensions version info (issue4209)

Augie Fackler lists at durin42.com
Wed Jun 11 13:23:10 CDT 2014


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2) Too complex! IMHO we should just support __version__, and we should
>>    document that in
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PublishingExtensions.
>>
>
> I find it useful to support at least get_version(). get_version() may
> return human
> readable string in free format that can also contain critical libraries
> that extension
> uses.
>


He's got a great point: for hgsubversion we generally need to know both the
version of hgsubversion and the bindings that are in use.
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