On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:52:45PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > BTW: How would you name a snapshot using the scheme ?
> > Say you are working on an upcoming version 3.2.0 of a package and you > use the date as snapshot indicator (as opposed to some revision, which > doesn't have any meaning for an end-user). > > I suppose this is the only way: > > 3.2.0a0.20091125 > > ... not very obvious :-( I think it would be this: 3.2.0a0.dev20091125 But given that you came up with something else the non-obvious argument might be valid. > If we'd allow [a-z_] (including the underscore which AFAIK doesn't > cause RPM/deb problems), this could also be written as: > > 3.2.0_dev_snapshot.20091125 > > ... much better :-) Now this would be 3.2.0.dev20091125 Regards Floris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
