[Distutils] [DistUtils] - Problem with versions...

[Sharky On PTNet]

Thanks for everything Phillip...


2005/11/29, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 12:51 PM 11/29/2005 +0000, Sharky On PTNet wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >    Trying to upgrade cherrypy pkg with ease_install, i notice that
> >easy_install don't detect the newer version.
> >
> >    You can see that 2.1.0 is the final and not 2.1.0-rc2 in the
> >sourceforge page:
> >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56099
>
>
> The problem is that "2.1.0-rc2" > "2.1.0" > "2.1.0rc2", as "-" is most
> commonly used in versions to denote a post-release patch or port, whereas a
> plain "rc" is normally a pre-release candidate.  Use "easy_install
> CherryPy==2.1.0" to get the exact release.  (TurboGears works around this
> by depending on "CherryPy>=2.1,!=2.1-rc1,!=2.1-rc2".)
>
>