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

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>   
> Thanks Tarek.  I think if it would do the same thing as bdist_rpm that 
> it would be ok.  bdist_rpm looks like it does VERSION-RELEASE (hyphen 
> separator).    So then doing this for 'sdist' I guess would produce a 
> tarball name of foo-VERSION-RELEASE.tar.gz  and an extracted directory 
> of foo-VERSION-RELEASE.   What this would allow then is for the 
> 'version' string to stay at '5.0.0' and then the 'release' string to 
> contain any pre-release information such as '0_rc1' and then the final 
> release would contain '1' which is lexically superior to the '0_rc1'.  
> I'm not sure though what other targets in distutils also use 'version' 
> so I don't know if this would affect anything else.    
Updating my comment:   Yes, and all the 'bdist' targets would have to do 
the same type of thing as 'bdist_rpm'.  That is use the combination of 
VERSION-RELEASE.

> Also, I'm hoping this can be implemented as some kind of extension so 
> that it can be made to work for existing installations as well.
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
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