[Distutils] Comparison semantics for alphanumeric components of a version number

[Paul Moore]

2009/6/5 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> At least I hope we all agree that : 2009.05.12 is not a good version number,
> and that we all want a major/minor scheme.

Well, Twisted and Ubuntu might both disagree :-) But it's no more of a
problem than 1.7.5 - the numbers are just a bit bigger, and there are
gaps.

Frankly, I prefer that to 1.2post5.dev6-r1234. Or is that
1.2dev6-post5_r1234??? :-)

Paul.