On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Paul Moore<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/6 Georg Brandl <[email protected]>: >> Paul Moore schrieb: >>> And yet, in spite of repeated requests for specific examples of >>> projects using this post-dev stuff, which haven't been forthcoming, >>> why is nobody saying "it's an unnecessary complication, we'll drop >>> it"? >> >> Not everybody is on this list. At the discussion at PyCon, one participant >> (IIRC it was Zooko) specifically asked for this option to be included. > > FWIW, Zooko is on the list. If it wasn't him, someone who knows who it > was needs to ask them to supply their justification for the list - > given that there are a number of objections being raised here which > need to be addressed.
Yes, my memory as well is that it was Zooko. IIRC, at the time I asked for an example of a project that used "post-releases" [^1] and the example was Twisted. I tried to look at the details of how Twisted's versioning works a little bit (I'm not a Twisted developer), but before I discuss that a little bit I think I should cover my understanding of why ".dev" and ".post" were deemed useful at the time. (/me writes for too long). I'll send a separate email mostly attempting to give my recollections of the Pycon discussions in answer to: [Paul Moore] > I'm not trying to criticise the work done at PyCon, but I > think the discussions (and not just the conclusions) need to be > publicised better. My email only covers up (but excluding) the ".dev" and ".post" parts of the version scheme. I'll try to get to the those tomorrow night. Trent -- Trent Mick [email protected] _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
