Gerry Reno wrote:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Gerry Reno <[email protected]> wrote:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Gerry Reno <[email protected]> wrote:
The problem is that there appears to be no way to get a coordinated behavior
between 'sdist' and 'bdist_rpm' as far as version and release strings are
concerned that will satisfy both tarballs and bdist packages.
If I understand your problem correclty, if sdist would simply
concatenate the version string and
the release string to use it as a "source version" when it starts to work,
you would be able to work things out ?
I don't know the internals of 'sdist' but I think if there were a way to
extend 'sdist' to use 'release' as well as 'version' then that might work.
I would have to test that to see.
Well, can you define how sdist should behave exactly ?
Based on that discussion I can make a prototype for you to try out, then we can
maybe propose in that mailing list a change to sdist
Thanks Tarek. I think if it would do the same thing as bdist_rpm that
it would be ok. bdist_rpm looks like it does VERSION-RELEASE (hyphen
separator). So then doing this for 'sdist' I guess would produce a
tarball name of foo-VERSION-RELEASE.tar.gz and an extracted directory
of foo-VERSION-RELEASE. What this would allow then is for the
'version' string to stay at '5.0.0' and then the 'release' string to
contain any pre-release information such as '0_rc1' and then the final
release would contain '1' which is lexically superior to the '0_rc1'.
I'm not sure though what other targets in distutils also use 'version'
so I don't know if this would affect anything else.
Updating my comment: Yes, and all the 'bdist' targets would have to do
the same type of thing as 'bdist_rpm'. That is use the combination of
VERSION-RELEASE.
Also, I'm hoping this can be implemented as some kind of extension so
that it can be made to work for existing installations as well.
Regards,
Gerry
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