[Distutils] RFC : Version comparison

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Wed May 6 20:58:41 CEST 2009


Sorry to post again that mail, but it seems that this is the last remaining
issue for the versionning proposal.

Phillip, could you check my proposal for your development versions of
postreleases
use case ?

thx

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/22 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
>> I don't see how it can manage, e.g. a development version of a postrelease,
>> with an SVN rev or date stamp on it.  Such versions might not be found on
>> PyPI or on RPMs, but would be needed in development.
>
> So, instead of having 'dev' and 'post', we would require a third case
> for "pos+dev" version
>
> so  (dev|post)N+ could become, ((dev|post)N+)|(postN+devN+)
>
> example:
>
> 1.0.dev459 < 1.0 < 1.0.post456dev463 < 1.0.post456 < 1.0.post489
>
>
>>
>> (Btw, the wiki page pseudo-regex doesn't match what the code actually
>> parses, either.)
>>
>
> i'll check it thx
>
>>
>
>
>
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> Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org
>



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