On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> wrote:
> However, now that you mention it, ISTR that this is the way that it was > originally and the lack of pre/dev in that position did bother another (set > of?) the PEP authors enough that it was changed. For me, switching the > search order of that particular piece is a bikeshed so I seem to have > reallocated the memory for storing the arguments made in favor of shifting > it to the current position :-) Why is this perceived as a bikeshed issue? It seems like a discussion about substantial functionality which is tied to the semantics of these special tags. For many projects and organizations, terms like 'alpha' and 'beta' and 'dev' have meaning in a release context, and rearranging the order of these concepts has an impact. > So to be clear my proposal would be: > > 1.0dev1 < 1.0a1 < 1.0b1 < 1.0c1 < 1.0.pre1 < 1.0 < 1.0.post1 > > as opposed to the current: > > 1.0a1 < 1.0b1 < 1.0c1 < 1.0.dev1 < 1.0 < 1.0.post1 > +1 for the proposal to change the PEP so that 'dev' versions are earlier than 'a' versions. I'm not a contributor to any packaging projects so this is really just a vote from an appreciative user of setuptools and distribute. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
