Re: [Numpy-discussion] Please comment on SVN versioning convention

2006-07-24 Thread Fernando Perez
On 7/24/06, Travis Oliphant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Straw has emphasized that the current strategy of appending the SVN version number to development versions of the SVN tree makes it hard to do version sorting. His proposal is to not change the version number until the first beta

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Please comment on SVN versioning convention

2006-07-24 Thread Sasha
On 7/24/06, Travis Oliphant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Straw has emphasized that the current strategy of appending the SVN version number to development versions of the SVN tree makes it hard to do version sorting. I am not sure what the problem is, but if the concern is that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Please comment on SVN versioning convention

2006-07-24 Thread Andrew Straw
Sasha wrote: On 7/24/06, Travis Oliphant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Straw has emphasized that the current strategy of appending the SVN version number to development versions of the SVN tree makes it hard to do version sorting. I am not sure what the problem is, but if the concern

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Please comment on SVN versioning convention

2006-07-24 Thread Sasha
On 7/24/06, Andrew Straw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I only brought up version numbers as strings because you did. I'm not proposing we solve that problem. I see setuptools, in particular, as the biggest thing to support, because it lets you have multiple versions installed simultaneously.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Please comment on SVN versioning convention

2006-07-24 Thread David M. Cooke
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 04:03:13PM -0700, Andrew Straw wrote: Sasha wrote: On 7/24/06, Andrew Straw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, Fernando, all this is so that we can still have the svn revision number in __version__, but so that it doesn't screw up sorting. Sorting __version__ is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Please comment on SVN versioning convention

2006-07-24 Thread Bill Baxter
On 7/25/06, Andrew Straw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.0.2881 - This would sort after 1.0 (and 1.0b and 1.0c) and before 1.1 for most tools out there. I like that best. Save the 1.1 prefix until it's actually released as such. The numbering scheme needs to deal with what to call the patch tip of