Thanks. There's still a little too much negative there for me - if I propose a diff here would that be ok? On 16 April 2015 at 11:26, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 14 Apr 2015 04:04, "Robert Collins" <robertc@robertcollins.net> wrote:
Tl;dr: I woud like to change PEP-440 to remove the stigmata around dev versions that come between pre-releases and releases.
The basic scenario here is developers and CD deployers building versions from VCS of arbitrary commits. So we need to be able to deliver strictly increasing version numbers, automatically, without interfering with actual publishing of pre-release and release versions to PyPI.
We'd had a previous request for a similar clarification around local version identifiers, so I've finally tweaked the PEP to clarify that both that admonition and this one relate specifically to *published* versions, rather than what folks do with their local or CI builds.
See https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/bf4ffb364faf for the exact wording change.
Cheers, Nick.
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