[Distutils] Is there an official stable release of setuptools?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:44 PM 7/18/2007 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is there a blessed-as-stable, official, release of setuptools?
>Perhaps it's just me but a version number of the form '0.6c6' or '0.7a1'
>just doesn't seem like the developers think it is stable yet, even if it
>is being widely used. :-)

It depends on your definition of "stable", of course.  :)  There will 
be an 0.6c7, fixing a couple of outstanding issues.  I will then at 
some point simply bless an 0.6 final, regardless of whether there are 
any more bugs found, because having an 0.6c8 is just ridiculous.  ;-)

0.6c6 is nonetheless an official *release* of setuptools.  We do not 
have a "stable/unstable" distinction, only a "release/development" distinction.

0.7a1 has not been released, but 0.6c6 has.  Releases are uploaded to 
the CheeseShop, and do not have 'dev-r####' tags in their version.


>However, there are others who think 'stable' just means that we've
>found, in our own testing, that things generally work as advertised and
>that really, our build process is building correctly.  (I may be
>paraphrasing incorrectly, but since other Enthought-ers read this list,
>I'll trust them to correct me!)  This would mean that we could put a
>binary of setuptools 0.7a1 up in our stable repo.

Since 0.7a1 does not exist yet (only unreleased 0.7a1dev-r#### 
versions), you won't be able to do that just yet.  :)