[Distutils] pre-release versioning problems with sdist, bdist_rpm, bdist_debian

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
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> The problem is that there appears to be no way to get a coordinated behavior
> between 'sdist' and 'bdist_rpm' as far as version and release strings are
> concerned that will satisfy both tarballs and bdist packages.
>
>
> If I understand your problem correclty, if sdist would simply
> concatenate the version string and
> the release string to use it as a "source version" when it starts to work,
> you would be able to work things out ?
>
>
> I don't know the internals of 'sdist' but I think if there were a way to
> extend 'sdist' to use 'release' as well as 'version' then that might work.
> I would have to test that to see.
>

Well, can you define how sdist should behave exactly ?

Based on that discussion I can make a prototype for you to try out, then we can
maybe propose in that mailing list a change to sdist

Regards
Tarek

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