Ben Finney wrote:
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?
I want to install the latest version of Python. My choices are 3.3.1 (the released version) and 3.3.1rc1.