[Zope-Coders] $Revision$

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 3:05 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> CVS has a -kk switch which inhibits the automatic insertion of revision
>> numbers into the $Revision:$ tags. This switch avoids spurious
>> conflicts between branches, but currently Zope wont start up if the
>> revision numbers are not there.
>>
>> I would like to merge some changes to fix this. The patches are
>> straightforward: the biggest sticking point is that it requires changing
>> some files in medusa.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>Sounds good to me.  I believe the current wisdom is to get rid of
>__version__ variables but to inclide the $id$ as part of the
>docstrings.  I implementat that on the trunk for all C files that
>belong to Standalone ZODB, but I trust you that there are other cases
>(C and Python) that need to be fixed.

I wasnt planning to *remove* the __version__ attributes, only the code which 
breaks if they have the short form. Removing them completely may be easier 
however.....