[Cython] [cython-users] Re: Cython 0.17 beta 1 released

[Bradley M. Froehle]

Yes, this versioning has also impacted mpi4py which had to add some pretty ugly code in setup.py to work around it:

https://code.google.com/p/mpi4py/source/detail?r=841e9df

-Brad
> NB I am not sure what is the status on PEP 386 [1] (not yet adopted
> afaik) but it might be worthwhile following it and/or existing
> disutils.version.StrictVersion since having
> 
> In [2]: Cython.__version__
> Out[2]: '0.17.beta1'
> 
> is not digested well by some depending projects -- there were 2 failures to
> build against this beta release of Cython in Debian due to difficulty with
> parsing the version -- bzr and xpra I believe [2]. So may be it is worth
> making it '0.17b1' (and use corresponding tags accordingly)?
> 
> [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386/
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/683133


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