On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:27:04PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> wrote: > [lots of explanation] > > Thanks for these explanations Toshio. I am starting to think that > whatever we use on Python side will be fine for you guys, (and for > Ubuntu/Fedora guys), as long as it is > described in the PEP. > Pretty much.
> So I think that using '.' as we stated before "works" for everyone, > > Now about the usage of "a1" as alpha for us, and a post release patch for you, > this is something that won't be changed because it's deeply used in > the Python community, (by Python itself, and most framworks) so we > need to keep a status quo. > > <nod> -- The only caveat to that is that aliases are a bad idea. So please don't add "alpha" as an alias for "a". If you must, add "alpha" and "a" separately so there is a predictable sorting between "alpha1" and "a1"... although this is still a way to make confusion rather than eliminate it. -Toshio
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