On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:07:01PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > So If the current proposal works for all cases (e.g. people can > translate their schemes > into PEP 386 one), I am proposing to: > > 1- reject the "+", " ", "-" proposal, and stick with "." so we have > only one way to express the segments. (ala Python itself) > +1
> 2 - keep the aliases (alpha/beta/rc) because they are not controversial > Rather than aliases, I'd like to see a sort order worked out. Someone will make both foo-1.0alpha1 and foo-1.0a1 because they don't understand that they're just supposed to be aliases. Better to document explicitly what happens in that case. > 3 - stick with "post" "dev" for the post and pre-release tags because > *we need them to sort development versions and post versions* in > installers, and because *they don't hurt* for people that are not > publishing such versions. They will be able to use their own dev > markers internally if they want. > +1 > Next, once the PEP is edited, I am proposing to move this discussion > in python-dev, > for another round, and eventually have Guido accept it or reject it > and move forward with PEP 345. > > Because as far as I am concerned, even if we change the syntax in PEP > 386 a million times, some people will not like it at the end. > Agreed :-) -Toshio
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