[gdal-dev] Minor addition to Python bindings..

[Howard Butler]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I had a heck of a time figuring out what version of gdal I was using  
> today. I eventually found:
>
> gdal.gdal.VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")
>
>
> It's a pretty well supported convention now for Python modules to  
> have a __version__ attribute that returns something meaningful. It  
> would be nice if gdal.py had a line:
>
> __version__ = VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")
>
> or
>
> __version__ = _gdal.VersionInfo("RELEASE_NAME")
>
>
> While we're at it, it might be nice for osgeo\__init__.py to have a  
> __version__ defined as well.
>
> -Chris
>

Chris,

Please provide a patch on a ticket in Trac for this with the  
PythonBindings component, and I will try to get to it for the 1.7  
release.

Thanks,

Howard