On 18 December 2014 at 11:55, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Dec 16, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 16 December 2014 at 17:56, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I’ve had a number of people complain that PEP 440 normalizes a release >>> candidate as 1.0c1 instead of 1.0rc1. Do we want to ammend the PEP to switch >>> the normalization around so that it normalizes 1.0c1 to 1.0rc1? This >>> probably >>> matches what people expect better in general? It wouldn't have any effect on >>> sort order or the like, it would just change which form is preferred. >> >> I'd typically expect to see 1.0rc1 rather than 1.0c1. I don't think >> it's a crisis either way, but I would mildly prefer it if this change >> was made. >> Paul > > Given that it’s a fairly low impact change, We’ve got several pip developers > +1 on it, Jason is OK with it on the setuptools side, and nobody has spoken > out against it I’m going to go ahead and make this change.
Thanks. I think one key with this particular change is that client tools were already obliged to accept both formats anyway, as normalisation for publication is only a SHOULD, rather than a MUST. Switching the preferred format for publication thus shouldn't break anything on the consumption side. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
