[Distutils] RFC : Version comparison

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> Picking a less extreme example:
>
>  2.1.5dev1234
>  2.1.5.dev1234
>
> Hm.  Let me stare at it a bit more.  Hm.  Why not
>
>  2.1.5.dev.1234
>
> then?

-1,

imho the semantic of the "." here is to separate the atomic parts of
the version, and "dev1234" is one
atomic part with its own meaning. (1234 doesn't mean much alone)



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