Version string display on the About Trac page should contain revision number.

[Ryan J Ollos]

In [7214] you added version info to the System Information section on the about page. The log message with that checkin seems to imply a version info string of the form 0.1.1 (r7214), but I only see a string of the form 0.1.1.

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7214 by osimons on 2009-12-02 17:00:49

FullBlogPlugin: Adding version information to 'About Trac' for admins (and also now adding revision from repos to version string).

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(I tried to include just the log message for [7214], but this doesn't seem to work because of #3928)

I current have the head revision, [7225], installed.

I really like the idea of including the revision number in the string because I currently track revisions of installed plugins manually on a wiki page. I'm look at copying the work you did there and applying patches to all of the other plugins on my system.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Sorry ... meant to crop that image before upload.

[Ryan J Ollos]

See also ​t:#8921.

[osimons]

It 'worksforme' - mine says 0.1.1-r7225. You obviously need to do a full easy_install/setup.py run to get the subversion metadata tagged in the plugin metadata that gets read as version string. Could you please try installing again?

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to osimons:

It 'worksforme' - mine says 0.1.1-r7225. You obviously need to do a full easy_install/setup.py run to get the subversion metadata tagged in the plugin metadata that gets read as version string. Could you please try installing again?

Thanks for explaining how that works. I had been looking at [7214] and couldn't see how the revision number was added to the version string.

I will reinstall and report back here shortly.

[Ryan J Ollos]

It sounds like the issue I am experiencing may be due to the way my hosting provider installs plugins. It sounds like they checkout and export the contents of the working copy so that easy_install is run from a directory that doesn't contain .svn working copy directories. It looks to me like ​egg_info uses get_svn_revision to obtain the revision number from the .svn directory in a working copy.

Does that explanation make sense to you?

[osimons]

Replying to rjollos:

Does that explanation make sense to you?

Yes, it does. The tagging of subversion revision number presumes the install is made from a subversion working copy (easy_install <url> will also perform a checkout to tmp). No svn information, no revision tagging.

A 'worksforme' then, I suppose?

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to osimons:

Replying to rjollos:

Does that explanation make sense to you?

Yes, it does. The tagging of subversion revision number presumes the install is made from a subversion working copy (easy_install <url> will also perform a checkout to tmp). No svn information, no revision tagging.

That puts a damper on my hopes of displaying the version and revision info for plugins on the About page (c.f. ​t:#8921). One more reason to try and move from shared hosting to a dedicated server ...

Replying to osimons:

A 'worksforme' then, I suppose?

Yes, thanks for your help!

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to rjollos:

That puts a damper on my hopes of displaying the version and revision info for plugins on the About page (c.f. ​t:#8921). One more reason to try and move from shared hosting to a dedicated server ...

Looks like they solved that problem as well now by moving to a newer version of setup_tools (sounds like the older version had problems with working copies, which resulted in the procedure of installing from a copy not under version control). I have the revision info on my About page now.