merge

MANIFEST.in

 include MANIFEST.in README.txt INSTALL.txt ToDo.txt USAGE.txt
 include COPYING.txt LICENSE.txt Makefile
-recursive-include .hg *
-include .hgignore .hgtags
+include .hgrev
 include setup.py
 include bin/*
 include cython.py

Makefile

 PYTHON?=python
+REPO = http://hg.cython.org/cython-devel
 
 all:    local 
 
 local:
 	${PYTHON} setup.py build_ext --inplace
 
+.hg: REV := $(shell cat .hgrev)
+.hg: TMPDIR := $(shell mktemp -d tmprepo.XXXXXX)
+.hg: 
+	hg clone --rev $(REV) $(REPO) $(TMPDIR)
+	hg -R $(TMPDIR) update
+	mv $(TMPDIR)/.hg .
+	mv $(TMPDIR)/.hgtags .
+	rm -rf $(TMPDIR)
+
+repo: .hg
+
+
 clean:
 	@echo Cleaning Source
 	@rm -fr build

setup.py

@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
 import os, os.path
 import sys
 
+if 'sdist' in sys.argv:
+    # Record the current revision in .hgrev
+    import subprocess # os.popen is cleaner but depricated
+    changset = subprocess.Popen("hg log --rev tip | grep changeset", 
+                                shell=True,
+                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()
+    rev = changset.split(':')[-1].strip()
+    hgrev = open('.hgrev', 'w')
+    hgrev.write(rev)
+    hgrev.close()
+
 compiler_dir = os.path.join(get_python_lib(prefix=''), 'Cython/Compiler')
 if sys.platform == "win32":
     compiler_dir = compiler_dir[len(sys.prefix)+1:]