[Distutils] post-release revisions

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:39 AM 6/12/2009 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>However, I remind readers that part of the problem we're trying to 
>solve here is that version string schemes are *already* non-standard 
>and inconsistent; we would have to choose only a sub-set of existing 
>version schemes to be supported for upgrade.

Indeed, and such a subset has already been proposed.  Apparently, 
some people don't like "dev" and "post" being a part of it.

I can *almost* see a case for dropping "post" - I personally have not 
used it, and Trent has shown evidence that its usage is relatively 
rare.  And I could *almost* see tacking on extra zeros to signify a 
post tag, at the cost of readability, and the need for any tracked 
packages (where the Python version of the project is versioned as 
patchlevels of the foreign project) to maintain a consistent numbering scheme.

However, I do not see an equivalent case for dropping "dev", since 
it's an important part of development workflows, and I don't see any 
way to simulate it in an an otherwise-linear scheme.