[Distutils] Summary of requested features

Mark W. Alexander mwa@gate.net
Thu Apr 5 11:08:01 2001


On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:47:48 +0200
> From: M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>
> To: "Distribution Utilities SIG @ Python.Org" <distutils-sig@python.org>
> Subject: [Distutils] Summary of requested features
> 
> Just so that we don't forget, here's the start of a feature request
> summary:
> 
> * binary packages should include the Python version in their
>   filename
> 
> * all distutils packages should include a package release number
>   (like the RPM one) meaning that you can generate new package
>   versions without having to bump the software version number;
>   we could use a new setup() keyword "release" for this  

Was the final format agreed to? Like:

packagename-pkgversion-binaryrevision-pythonversion

Mark