Comment 14 for bug 531662

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Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>> Seriously: If you can't recreate your build environment from some
>> manifest or other, naming the distributions used for each component,
>> you have problems beyond our ability to help..
>
> And I'm not asking you to solve those problems. I'm only asking for
> zope.interface to identify its version number.

You are asking for us to do so outside the "standard" metadata which all
installable packages are supposed to provide, and which any recent
Python (>= 2.5) captures to the filesystem at install time. Older
Python's also do fine with capturing the data if they use setuptools.

Satisfying your request to be able to query this information on an old
python without setuptools requires introducing cruft into the software,
for very little benefit to the vast majority of its users, who use the
software in a way which makes querying the version via its packaging
metadata simple and straightforward.

Tres.
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