Python has a collection of C files to get "build information"

• Modules/getbuildinfo.c
• Python/getcompiler.c
• Python/getcopyright.c
• Python/getplatform.c
• Python/getversion.c

_Py_gitidentifier(), Py_GetBuildInfo() and Py_GetVersion() build strings at runtime. For example, Python/getversion.c uses a static buffer of a fixed size: static char version[300];. Well, I recently changed that to allocate the version string in the heap memory to no longer truncate the string: #158608.

I propose to rework these files to build strings at build time, no longer truncate strings, and don't need to build strings at runtime (no error handling needed).

Linked PRs

• gh-158948: Generate Modules/getbuildinfo.h #158951