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

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Dmitry Vasiliev wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I would suggest using svnversion first if that exists, and possibly
> doing a fallback to parsing things by hand. The output of svnversion is
> much more accurate than a single revision number.

Current implementation of ZopeVersion also extracts tag/branch information so I 
guess it's better to use 'svn info' instead of 'svnversion'.

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