[Zope-dev] Product version number redundancy with version.txt and setup.py

[Tim Hicks]

Hi,

Am I right in thinking that there is a duplication of information in 
having an eggified product's version number stored in setup.py and 
version.txt?

Both seem to be necessary - the first for use with pypi and the second 
so that Zope knows what version of a product it has.  The former seems 
more like it should be the preferred single place for this information. 
  Does anyone have any ideas about how we might update Zope to read 
version information from setup.py instead?

The initializeProduct function at 
<http://svn.zope.org/Zope/trunk/lib/python/App/Product.py?rev=73460&view=auto> 
seems to be the relevant place.  However, I'm not sure if that code has 
access to the full eggy package at that stage.  My guess is that the 
relevant object (productp?) might already have been adjusted for 
backward compatibility reasons at that stage.

Any ideas?


Tim