[Distutils] version scheme: a case for dropping ".devNNN" and ".postNNN"

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:51:24PM -0400, Stephen Waterbury wrote:
> Trent Mick wrote:
>> I've been thinking from the p.o.v. of what releases get up on PyPI....
>> and I gather that those releases are the ones that lead to potential
>> packaging in RPM and .deb repositories.
>
> I think that is not necessarily true -- I seem to recall some discussion
> in the PyCon sessions about OS distro folks sometimes having to
> package dev versions ... hopefully there are some distro packagers
> here who can chime in on this ...

True, some packages have versions like 1.2.3+hg20090612-1 in which
case there didn't even need to be a development release.  Of course
1.2.3.dev456-1 would be fine too (the last "-1" would be debian's
version, ignore that).

Regards
Floris

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