On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 16:15 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:00:56PM -0500, Brad Allen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@gmail.com> wrote:
However, now that you mention it, ISTR that this is the way that it was originally and the lack of pre/dev in that position did bother another (set of?) the PEP authors enough that it was changed. For me, switching the search order of that particular piece is a bikeshed so I seem to have reallocated the memory for storing the arguments made in favor of shifting it to the current position :-)
Why is this perceived as a bikeshed issue? It seems like a discussion about substantial functionality which is tied to the semantics of these special tags. For many projects and organizations, terms like 'alpha' and 'beta' and 'dev' have meaning in a release context, and rearranging the order of these concepts has an impact.
dev has no universal defined relation to alpha, beta, etc in a release context.
The tools that people use to install a Python package sort it before alpha and have for many years. That seems to be a pretty good argument in favor, all other things considered. - C