Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> writes:
Ben Finney wrote:
the problem we have is to be able to sort those post and pre releases with other versions. And this is not possible with a simple alphanumerical comparison.
It is, if the version strings are chosen to fit within such a comparison semantic. […]
How would you propose Python itself (a project that doesn't have especially wacky release numbers) specify 3.1.1rc1 in such a scheme?
Since the specification is about version *comparison* semantics, I'd need to know example version strings that should compare “prior” and “subsequent” for the version string I'm to propose. Can you give examples? -- \ “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more | `\ robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument | _o__) than others.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney