Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-13 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reinout van Rees wrote: On 2009-10-08, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-13 Thread P.J. Eby
At 01:45 PM 10/13/2009 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: Reinout van Rees wrote: On 2009-10-08, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-12 Thread Gerry Reno
Reinout van Rees wrote: On 2009-10-08, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next level). So, it would be better to use something

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread Benji York
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zo...@zooko.com wrote: What we do in the Tahoe-LAFS project is we don't count down to a future version, we only count up from a past version.  This is also what Twisted does (no coincidence -- we probably got the idea from them). To

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com writes: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. Why not just mark it 0.3.2 during development, and change the version string in a later revision if warranted? But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread exarkun
On 12:25 pm, be...@zope.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zo...@zooko.com wrote: What we do in the Tahoe-LAFS project is we don't count down to a future version, we only count up from a past version.  This is also what Twisted does (no coincidence -- we

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: I'm not sure how zooko does this for Tahoe, but with Twisted (with which we don't do betas but we do do pre-releases) if we were to start getting ready for 2.0.0, then we would create a release branch and change the version in that release branch to 2.0.0pre1.

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread Andrew Straw
Chris Withers wrote: I'm +1 on the branch having a version of 1.6.3~dev after 1.6.3 has been released, and I like 2.0.0pre1 too :-) I'm -1 on ~ meaning afterwards, because in Debian package versions it means the exact opposite. -Andrew ___

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread Chris Withers
Andrew Straw wrote: Chris Withers wrote: I'm +1 on the branch having a version of 1.6.3~dev after 1.6.3 has been released, and I like 2.0.0pre1 too :-) I'm -1 on ~ meaning afterwards, because in Debian package versions it means the exact opposite. I'm neutral on the exact spelling, I just

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On Friday,2009-10-09, at 6:25 , Benji York wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zo...@zooko.com wrote: What we do in the Tahoe-LAFS project is we don't count down to a future version, we only count up from a past version. This is also what Twisted does (no

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-09 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:24:50PM -, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: On 12:25 pm, be...@zope.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zo...@zooko.com wrote: What we do in the Tahoe-LAFS project is we don't count down to a future version, we only count up from a

[Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-08 Thread Ian Bicking
So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next level). So, it would be better to use something like 0.3.1~dev. What is considered best practice for this? Ideally something that

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-08 Thread Jim Fulton
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev.  But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next level). So, it would be better to use something like

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-08 Thread Ian Bicking
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jim Fulton j...@zope.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Ian Bicking i...@colorstudy.com wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-08 Thread Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
On Thursday,2009-10-08, at 15:41 , Ian Bicking wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next level). So, it would be better to use something like 0.3.1~dev. What

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-08 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:41:25PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next level). So, it would be better to use something like 0.3.1~dev.

Re: [Distutils] dev versions

2009-10-08 Thread Lennart Regebro
2009/10/9 Jim Fulton j...@zope.com: I like using a version of 0 on my project trunks.  I set the release version on release tags. I really wish there was a special version (or a version pattern) that indicated that something is a development version *only* and can't be released.  I don't