On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 January 2013 13:26, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We had a discussion about version schemes a while back along with Vinay. > It > > seems to me that the Major.Minor.Micro sorting is pretty much universal, > but > > when you want to compare alphanumeric patch / rc versions within the same > > Major.Minor.Micro release you need to know which scheme you are using. In > > other words you can probably still sort all the versions unless someone > > changes version schemes without incrementing Major.Minor.Micro. > > > But isn't that precisely what you want to do when comparing 1.2.1dev1 > against 1.2.1c1...? As it stands, the PEP is silent on which of these > is latest. Or are you saying that versions like that don't conform to > Metadata 1.3 and so the behaviour is undefined by that spec? > > Paul > Yes, that's when you would need to know what scheme was in use.
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