[Distutils] PEP 386 status - last round here ?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Could we extend the pseudo-format of the versions a little to also
> include variants which use more than just one character and also
> allow hyphens and spaces to be used for additional clarity ?
> 
> VERSION_RE = re.compile(r'''
>     ^
>     (?P<version>\d+\.\d+)          # minimum 'N.N'
>     (?P<extraversion>(?:\.\d+)*)   # any number of extra '.N' segments
>     (?:
>         [- .]*
>         (?P<prerel>[a-z]+)        # 'a'=alpha, 'b'=beta, 'c'=release candidate
>         [- .]*
>         (?P<prerelversion>\d+(?:\.\d+)*)
>     )?
>     (?P<postdev>
>         ([- .]*post[- .]*(?P<post>\d+))?
>         ([- .]*dev[- .]*(?P<dev>\d+))?
>     )?
>     $''', re.VERBOSE + re.I)
> 
> The pre-release marker would then be interpreted in alphabetical
> order, ie. 'alpha' < 'beta' < 'rc'.
> 
> This minor change would broaden the scope of the scheme somewhat
> and make it more compatible to what's being used outside the
> python-dev sphere (esp. with respect to 'c' standing for release
> candidate... unless you happen to read it as gamma ;-).

... and even python-dev has switched to "rc" for these:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

> The added optional hypens and spaces make the versions more
> readable, IMHO.

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