[Distutils] PEP 376 -- support for release versions?

David Lyon david.lyon at preisshare.net
Mon Nov 9 23:53:29 CET 2009


On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:39:40 -0600, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> But release numbers are already stored in the PKG_INFO metadata
>> file. Why store it somewhere else?
> 
> No, they're not.
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0241/

Ok, well they're part of http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/

I'll revise my statement back to saying that doing it according
to PEP-345 makes the most sense imho. 

PEP-376 specifies the simplest way of storing a version number
in a package that I can see.

David



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