On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:40:37PM -0400, P.J. Eby wrote: > At 02:12 PM 7/4/2009 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: >> - -1. I would rather exclude some use cases (post releases), than drop >> standardization altogether. > > And some people are the exact opposite, which means there's no > consensus... and thus no way to proceed.
I was under the impression that .devX and .postX where accepted, but it got messy when .postX.devX got used. But AFAIC (I'm not re-reading the entire thread now) it was stated that .postX.devX was not actually required (and if it was required just allowig exactly one each and it that order was sufficient). Also there is little harm in allowing .postX.devX you can simply ignore it and use simple 1.0.0 if that's all you want (I for one would ignore any .postX stuff). As Tres says in another mail on this thread, what's important is that you can compare versions of another project and know what to expect as an outcome instead of hoping that all package managers using your version will make sense out of it. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
