[PATCH 2/2] bindings/python-cffi: update version from global version.

[David Bremner]

David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> Copy machinery from the older python bindings

>  
> +# get the notmuch version number without importing the notmuch module
> +version_file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
> +                            'notmuch2', 'version.py')
> +exec(compile(open(version_file).read(), version_file, 'exec'))
> +assert '__VERSION__' in globals(), \
> +    'Failed to read the notmuch binding version number'

I wrote a cover letter for this, but that seems to have gotten lost. My
main point was I'm not sure why this is better than Floris's version,
since they both read a file when setup.py is run. I don't understand (or
use) pip, so someone else will have to figure this out. If the
constraint is that the version has to be hardcoded in setup.py then (as
much as that sounds like a design mistake), we can apply similar sed
hackery directly to setup.py. Perhaps someone can remember why we didn't
do that for the old python bindings.

d