On 2009-10-08, Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com> wrote:
So after creating, say, version 0.3.1, I always mark a package as 0.3.2dev. But this is annoying, you might never create a version 0.3.2 (e.g., 0.4 might be the next level). So, it would be better to use something like 0.3.1~dev. What is considered best practice for this? Ideally something that works with both Setuptools and the upcoming Distribute version spec.
a) Where's the annoyment exactly? It is easy to change and it's a release-time decision anyway. b) In a previous discussion on a zope mailinglist (about using '0' for this purpose, which was pretty much shot down for the zope toolkit because of the problems attached to it), someone mentioned adding '+svn' to the previous version number. So from 0.3.1 to 0.3.1+svn. Apparently that sorts it behind 0.3.1. You could try something like that. The poster mentioned it as a debian standard. Reinout -- Reinout van Rees - reinout@vanrees.org - http://reinout.vanrees.org Software developer at http://www.thehealthagency.com "Military engineers build missiles. Civil engineers build targets"