
At 03:44 PM 7/18/2007 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:
Hello,
Is there a blessed-as-stable, official, release of setuptools? Perhaps it's just me but a version number of the form '0.6c6' or '0.7a1' just doesn't seem like the developers think it is stable yet, even if it is being widely used. :-)
It depends on your definition of "stable", of course. :) There will be an 0.6c7, fixing a couple of outstanding issues. I will then at some point simply bless an 0.6 final, regardless of whether there are any more bugs found, because having an 0.6c8 is just ridiculous. ;-) 0.6c6 is nonetheless an official *release* of setuptools. We do not have a "stable/unstable" distinction, only a "release/development" distinction. 0.7a1 has not been released, but 0.6c6 has. Releases are uploaded to the CheeseShop, and do not have 'dev-r####' tags in their version.
However, there are others who think 'stable' just means that we've found, in our own testing, that things generally work as advertised and that really, our build process is building correctly. (I may be paraphrasing incorrectly, but since other Enthought-ers read this list, I'll trust them to correct me!) This would mean that we could put a binary of setuptools 0.7a1 up in our stable repo.
Since 0.7a1 does not exist yet (only unreleased 0.7a1dev-r#### versions), you won't be able to do that just yet. :)