setup.py sdist: store version into the archive

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 include au-quotidien-wcs-settings.xml
 include wcs-au-quotidien.cfg-sample
+include VERSION
 include po/Makefile
 include po/*.po
 include po/*.pot

setup.py

@@ -4,16 +4,22 @@ import os
 import subprocess
 import distutils.core
 
+from distutils.command.sdist import sdist
 from quixote.ptl.qx_distutils import qx_build_py
 
-__version__ = '1.9'
+VERSION = '1.9'
 
 def get_version():
+    if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+        version_file = open('VERSION', 'r')
+        version = version_file.read()
+        version_file.close()
+        return version
     if os.path.exists('.git'):
         p = subprocess.Popen(['git','describe','--long'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
         result = p.communicate()[0]
         return result.split()[0].replace('-','.')
-    return __version__
+    return VERSION
 
 def data_tree(destdir, sourcedir):
     extensions = ['.css', '.png', '.jpeg', '.jpg', '.xml', '.html', '.js', '.ezt', '.gif']
@@ -27,6 +33,21 @@ def data_tree(destdir, sourcedir):
             dirs.remove('.svn')
     return r
 
+class eo_sdist(sdist):
+
+    def run(self):
+        print "creating VERSION file"
+        if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+            os.remove('VERSION')
+        version = get_version()
+        version_file = open('VERSION', 'w')
+        version_file.write(version)
+        version_file.close()
+        sdist.run(self)
+        print "removing VERSION file"
+        if os.path.exists('VERSION'):
+            os.remove('VERSION')
+
 distutils.core.setup(
         name = 'wcs-au-quotidien',
         version = get_version(),
@@ -34,7 +55,8 @@ distutils.core.setup(
         maintainer_email = 'fpeters@entrouvert.com',
         package_dir = { 'extra': 'extra' },
         packages = ['extra', 'extra.modules', 'extra.modules.pyatom'],
-        cmdclass = {'build_py': qx_build_py},
+        cmdclass = {'build_py': qx_build_py,
+                    'sdist': eo_sdist},
         data_files = data_tree('share/wcs/texts', 'texts') +\
             data_tree('share/wcs/themes/auquotidien', 'theme') +\
             data_tree('share/wcs/themes/', 'data/themes/') + \