On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com> wrote: [..]
since the .dev versions are really only snapshots leading up to some release, i.e. 1.0.dev456 is a snapshot leading up to the first pre-release of the 1.0 :-)
But in this case if I want to make a pre-release of 1.0 but after the last rc then I can't, I can only make a post-release of the last rc. That's almost more un-intuitive that forcing your first pre-release to be '1.0a0.dev456' instead of just '1.0.dev456'.
It seems to me that the number of development versions of rc releases is very low compared to the number of development snapshots done for 1.0, before the pre-release cycle starts. (I don't think I have ever needed a dev snapshot of a rc version) I am +1 for keeping the intuitive writing for the pre-release cycle. e.g. 1.0.dev456 < 1.0a1.dev456 < 1.0a1 < 1.0rc1.dev456 < 1.0rc1 < 1.0rc1.post123 < 1.0 Regards, Tarek