[Zope3-dev] Re: Subversion 1.4 breaks mkzopeinstance.py

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> Uh, why are we parsing the entries file?
>> To get the current revision of the Zope 3 checkout...
> 
> Why not use svn info --xml?

or even just "svn info"...

I think we (Christian Theune and I) chose to poke at CVS/Tag and 
.svn/entries later because you may not know where the cvs/svn executable 
is installed (it may not be on your $PATH).