[PEAK] setuptools and subversion 1.4

[Marc-Antoine Parent]

> >I think that, as a more robust, strategy, you might consider calling
> >'svn info' and parsing the result. It can be done even if the net is
> >down.
>
> Alas, my understanding is that the output from "svn info" is
> locale-specific; in fact we used to use that, then switched to parsing
> "entries".

Which ends up being version-specific unfortunately.
I believe the locale-specificity could simply solved by setting
LC_ALL=C in the environment vars of the subprocess, no?

> By the way, folks doing specialized revision control system
> support should probably have a look at:
>
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#adding-support-for-other-revision-control-systems
>

Sounds great,  I was thinking about this for bzr!
Cheers,

Marc-Antoine