[Distutils] RFC : Version comparison

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:58 PM 5/6/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>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 ?

Is the code up-to-date with the below?


>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
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org
> >
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