On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Michele Simionato wrote: > >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386/ (Changing the version >> comparison module in Distutils) > > I suggest, for now, that the version of a package be a string > containing dot-separated list of nonnegative exact integers > (e.g., "1.2.3.4"). These have all the good characteristics: > easy for humans to understand, easy for programs to process, > and above all, extremely boring so that no one would have any > interest in arguing over the merits of one versioning scheme > over the next. > > Any serious objections? (I hope not)
No. Numbers are the right way. Have you looked at how Maven does versioning? I was wondering how the proposed identifiers of this scheme compare to Mavens: http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Maven_Coordinates
