Add snapshot versions to your setuptools packages from SVN is easy, using the “tag_svn_revision = true” options in setup.cfg. However, getting this working for GIT proved to be more difficult, as there’s no built in support. However, I finally settled on a bash script that does the job quite nicely.

now=`date +%s`
gitversion=`git describe –long –dirty=-$now | sed ‘s/.*\([-][0-9][0-9]*[-][a-z0-9]*\)/\1/’`
python setup.py setopt -o tag_build -s $gitversion -c egg_info
python setup.py sdist

First we generate a unique version string, based on the number of commits since the last GIT tag:

now=`date +%s`
gitversion=`git describe –long –dirty=-$now | sed ‘s/.*\([-][0-9][0-9]*[-][a-z0-9]*\)/\1/’`

Then we just apply it as an option before building the release:

python setup.py setopt -o tag_build -s $gitversion -c egg_info
python setup.py sdist

I started using Eclim a couple days ago, and kept running into “Error running command: pyflakes <path to my code>”, when my files contained more than one syntax error/warning. After a bit of googling I discovered this bug, which suggests that the version of pyflakes in Debian isn’t compatible with Eclim. Sure enough, removing the the .deb package (apt-get remove pyflakes) and installing it from pip (pip install pyflakes), fixed it.