[Distutils] post-release tags and RationalVersion (Was: PEP 345, PEP 376, PEP 386)

[Trent Mick]

2009/6/4 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> In setuptools' case, the original intent was to be compatible with projects
> that do have things like '2.4-1' - e.g., because they're a wrapper of a
> library whose version is 2.4, and the wrapper is the first version of that.
>  If the library then releases a '2.4.1', the wrapper for that is then
> '2.4.1-1'.  However, some projects (see Jean-Paul Calderone's recent
> questions here) have things like '2.4+1' as a patch level.

I *suppose*. :) Personally I just tack on an external field the main
version number for that. For example:
http://code.google.com/p/python-markdown2/source/browse/trunk/lib/markdown2.py#47
version 1.0.1.12 where the first three numbers are those of the Perl
Markdown.pl on which this is based. Granted that if Markdown.pl
1.0.1.1 came out it would be a little awkward, but that kind of thing
(where the wrapped library adds another version bit) would be rare,
I'd imagine.



Trent

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