Isn't the pep carefully constructed to respect lexicographical sorting? On Sep 12, 2012 1:44 PM, "Erik Bray" <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Why does 1.0a1 sort before 1.0.dev1? It appears to me that common > > usage in the wild of dev1 releases is that they are used for the > > development version before any sort of alpha, beta, rc, or final has > > been cut? > > If I had to guess, the rationale might be that when developing a new > version you're developing toward the first "alpha" release, so > something like .dev1 would be a development preview of a final release > after all a/b/rc pre-releases have been released. > > That said, this doesn't match my workflow at all. After releasing > "1.0" the next version is going to be "1.1", and any development > pre-release will be "1.1.devX". "1.1a" might not ever even exist. I > think others brought up this critique at the time PEP 386 was being > discussed, but then nothing was ever done about it >_> > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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