P.J. Eby wrote:
I can *almost* see a case for dropping "post" - I personally have not
used it, and Trent has shown evidence that its usage is relatively
rare. And I could *almost* see tacking on extra zeros to signify a post
tag, at the cost of readability, and the need for any tracked packages
(where the Python version of the project is versioned as patchlevels of
the foreign project) to maintain a consistent numbering scheme.
However, I do not see an equivalent case for dropping "dev", since it's
an important part of development workflows, and I don't see any way to
simulate it in an an otherwise-linear scheme.
I agree with both of these: you can simulate "post" by adding another
dot and a number (or string), but we still need "dev". I'm okay with
dropping "post", leaving "dev" as the only special case.
Eric.
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