Re: Versioning an app and displaying in template

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I did find the python-svn
bindings and came up with a fairly cogent solution. I blogged about it
here: http://www.christianposta.com/blog/?p=74

On Apr 2, 8:53 pm, Aryeh Leib Taurog <v...@aryehleib.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 1:42 am, "christian.posta" <christian.po...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I would like to get some feedback on how others display the version of
> > their apps to the users of the app.
>
> > I tag each build/version of the app in SVN when I deploy to my
> > clients, but i'm trying to figure out a good way to report that tag
> > name. I could manually try to put it into the settings.py module and
> > put it into a template, but was wondering what other suggestions or
> > options people have done. I guess I could do a full-blown checkout
> > (right now it's basically an svn export) and write some python code to
> > run an 'svn status' and parse out the tag name. Any other options?
>
> This is what we have been doing recently.  It's painless and robust,
> especially since we use mercurial, which is written in python.  It
> also simplifies deployment.  If you decide to do this, consider using
> the svn python bindings.

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