Re: [Distutils] Amend PEP 440 regarding timestamp based version identifiers and packaging

On Dec 18, 2014, at 7:03 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On 19 Dec 2014 03:50, "Marcos Klein" mailto:mklein0@gmail.com> wrote:

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I have two update requests for PEP 440.

Could PEP 440 date-based version identifier examples be extend to include full timestamp version identifiers?

Sure, that's not a change to the semantics, just some additional examples.

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This leads me to my second request.

Could the effects of normalized version identifiers be clarified when it comes to package builds?

The normalization section in PEP 440 only seems to discuss the use of normalization in parsing and processing of the version identifier. I was quite surprised when my package build for the above version identifier became the following under setuptools 8:

dated_release-20141218.18-p27-none-any.whl

Previous releases of setuptools would build:

dated_release-20141218.000018-p27-any.whl

This is jarring as it is an unexpected interpretation of PEP 440. It is the classic pointer argument. I want to call it THIS, but it really is THAT.

This is primarily an RFE for setuptools 8+ requesting the ability to skip the normalisation step. At the PEP level, it's already covered by the fact that installers are required to be able to do dynamic normalisation.

That said, it's likely worth adding a clarifying paragraph that our perspective is that while installation tools MUST normalise versions, build tools SHOULD normalise versions.

Cheers, Nick.

Originally I directed this here, though I think now it’s because I forgot how numbers work. I was thinking that currently the normalization would result in _wrong_ versions not just ugly versions. I forgot that 0018000 won’t normalize to the same thing as 0000000 so it’s likely safe to do that I think. Originally I was thinking that without doing the int() you’d get different results, something which in hindsight is obviously wrong. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA