[Distutils] Comparison semantics for alphanumeric components of a version number (was: Version comparison - round 2)

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Paul Moore<p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd rather the PEP said "This is how version numbers work (simple,
> non-controversial spec here), and this is the standard API for
> manipulating them", and then projects that want to conform to the
> standard migrate if needed.

That's exactly the goal.

Maybe there's a missing introduction on how version numbers works
Not a standard at first, but the principles of releasing a dev
release, an alpha, and so on..


> But I acknowledge that I have no personal requirement for any of this,
> so the only interest I have is an aesthetic one of *not* seeing
> overcomplicated, difficult to understand, specifications become part
> of the Python stdlib.

Well if the specification is difficult to understand or overcomplicated
it'll fail for sure.

But so far, besides that very specific case for the post-release dev
tag, I don't find
it complicated at all. Another win I can see is that it will help developers use
better versions numbers for their projects imho.

Regards
Tarek