versioning in vendor distributions

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:39 -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> I'm about to integrate 1.0 into Solaris, but Rich tells me that we need
> issue 1052 solved.  That's fine, but I didn't like his change to
> __version__.py, which turned "1.0" into "1.0-osol1".
> 
> Another idea would be to do to mercurial as we do to perl: split out a list
> of locally applied patches when calling "perl -V".  I just wanted to make
> sure that modifying mercurial in this way (changing the output of "hg
> version" to have a list of patches applied, below the copyright statement)
> is something you'd be okay with.

Seems ok. We'll probably ship a 1.0.1 pretty soon.

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