2009/6/11 Trent Mick <[email protected]>: > Those are my recollections of the Pycon versioning discussions. I want to > following up (in a separate email) with my current opinions.
Thank you for posting this. It helps *a lot*. Some questions that come immediately to mind: 1. From your description of events, and from discussion here, the "post" tag is clearly the least thought through aspect of all this. So a proponent of this should step up to justify why 1.0.5.post3 is required, when 1.0.5.3 is available already. 2. It sounds like all of the discussions were focused on formalising a *definition* of version string syntax, with no mention of what use would be made of the definition (i.e., what software benefits from a well-defined version-parsing API). Can someone please enumerate the expected use cases for the new version parsing API? The obvious one is dependency handling - I'll add my thoughts on this separately. I can't think of any other compelling use cases. Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
