2009/6/11 Eric Smith <[email protected]>: > Paul Moore wrote: >> >> 2009/6/11 P.J. Eby <[email protected]>: >>> >>> PyPI uploads aren't a suitable basis for analyzing "dev" use cases, since >>> the whole point of having a "dev" tag is for *non-released* versions. >>> (E.g., in-progress development via SVN.) >> >> If it's non-released, I've yet to see a clear explanation of why the >> PEP is relevant. Who is going to use an API from the PEP to parse your >> "version number", and why? > > I would, if my test environment used buildout to grab the latest versions of > my own packages from my own servers. And that's in fact how I operate > internally. > >> Distinguished by what? What code (that you didn't write yourself, >> purely for internal use) needs to parse your dev tag? > > Because it's my own code this use case doesn't need to be supported?
That's not what I meant, but I suspect that if I try to clarify, I'll make things worse, as I'm losing track of things at this point :-( Does Ben's proposed solution satisfy your needs? If not, let's try to understand why, and we can start the discussion again with a clean slate. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
