artemp/trac2github — Issue #725: SVN_REVISION and mapnik-config --svn-revision are useless with git checkout
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-09 20:48:18+00:00
State: open
Labels: Core_Library

if users pull mapnik via git svn or the github mirror then our method of having mapnik report its svn-revision does not work. node-mapnik (and potentially other tools) depend on know the svn revision to detect feature compatibility.

Best way to solve this is to release and release more often, but long term we need to figure out if we should more properly support git versioning somehow.