[Distutils] version scheme: a case for dropping ".devNNN" and ".postNNN"
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jun 12 00:24:25 CEST 2009
Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> writes:
> Agreed, I do this all the time. Pylons dev versions also regularly
> rely on other packages with a dev version, and people regularly use
> these non-released versions, with dependencies detected and installed
> via dependency_links.
I don't see how any of this argues for special-cased tokens in a version
string. Isn't this all possible anyway with a version comparison
algorithm with no special-cased tokens?
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