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

[Georg Brandl]

Paul Moore schrieb:
> 2009/6/5 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
>>> 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.
> 
> And yet, in spite of repeated requests for specific examples of
> projects using this post-dev stuff, which haven't been forthcoming,
> why is nobody saying "it's an unnecessary complication, we'll drop
> it"?

Not everybody is on this list.  At the discussion at PyCon, one participant
(IIRC it was Zooko) specifically asked for this option to be included.

Georg

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