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.