[Distutils] PEP 386

[ssteinerX@gmail.com]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> I'm sure I can't be the only person suffering from PEP overload when  
> it comes to packaging.

+1 on PEP overload

> Any chance we could at least get dev/post markers in PEP386 and get  
> it done and out of the way?

+1 on getting the versioning number scheme nailed down.  The reference  
implementation looks pretty good from a quick review and the tests,  
while not insanely exhaustive, seem to cover everything that would  
come up in practice.  If anyone disagrees with that last assessment,  
how about providing a test case?

> I have a feeling that PEP345 and PEP390 along with David's  
> alternative proposal are all related in such a way that the best  
> thing ot do is bottom out the latter two first

I'm not sure anymore what "bottom out the latter two first" means, but  
getting 386 out of the way would certainly make everything else easier.

S