At 03:29 PM 5/9/2011 -0400, Ruslan Spivak wrote:
Hi,
In
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#specifying-your-project-s-version
there is a statement that 2.1-rc2 means you've already released 2.1
and an example
"""
....
>>> parse_version('2.1-rc2') < parse_version('2.1')
False
....
"""
Running the example gives quite the opposite result (setuptools-0.6c11):
>>> parse_version('2.1-rc2') < parse_version('2.1')
True
and actually it turns out that a pre-release tag 2.1rc2 is equal to
the post-release tag 2.1-rc2
>>> parse_version('2.1-rc2') == parse_version('2.1rc2')
True
Does anyone have any idea why that's the case or is it a bug?
If it's a bug, it's a documentation bug. Originally, setuptools had
the behavior described, and I later realized it was a bad idea. ;-)
I think I skipped updating the documentation at the time, though,
because there were still versions of setuptools in the field which
could confuse the two, and thus using a '-' would still be a bad practice.
It might be a good idea to update it *now*, though. ;-)
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