[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