Re: QEMU release tagging script?

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:47:04AM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> On 10/30/20 9:38 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 13:32, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a script that's public that you use for tagging the QEMU
> > > release? I see make-release in scripts/, but that's for creating the
> > > tarballs after the tagging has been done.
> > 
> > I use this script:
> > https://git.linaro.org/people/peter.maydell/misc-scripts.git/tree/qemu-tag-release
> > 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > > I am looking into being able to cut releases for our Python QMP library,
> > > but due to constraints in the Python packaging ecosystem I have not yet
> > > been able to solve, it requires its own VERSION file.
> > > 
> > > It would be nice if when 5.2.0 is tagged that "0.5.2.0" could be written
> > > into ./python/VERSION as well.
> > 
> > I'm pretty strongly against having the version hardcoded
> > anywhere except the top level VERSION file. Everything else
> > should read the information from there.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I know. I don't want to do it either, but I don't see an alternative
> that works with Python packaging tooling right now.
> 
> The problem is that whenever you run an install, (which runs a python
> "build"), the source is copied out into a temp directory where it loses all
> access to the parent directory and any knowledge of .git.
> 
> Perhaps someone has a solution, but I've not found one yet. The authors of
> pip are aware of the problem and are working on a solution, but we don't
> have one yet.

What does the  copying logic do when it sees a symlink ?   Can you keep
a "VERSION" file in the python subdir that is a symlink to the top level
"VERSION" file, such that when python copies the source files to the temp
dir, it deep copies the symlink content. 


Regards,
Daniel
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