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

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 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).

Ugh, it was me. I switched ZopeVersion from CSV to SVN, moreover the first 
revision (25322) used 're' module to parse .svn/entries and later (41452) has 
been switched to use 'xml.dom.minidom'. I think extract information from 
.svn/entries is more safe way than use svn info/svnversion but however it 
require more maintaining effort. So I'll change the parser to make it more 
robust if no one objects.

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