[Distutils] Setuptools + specifying project's version

[Tres Seaver]

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On 05/09/2011 03:29 PM, Ruslan Spivak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#specifying-your-project-s-version
> there is a statement that 2.1-rc2 means you've already released 2.1
> and an example
> 
> """
> ....
>>>> parse_version('2.1-rc2') < parse_version('2.1')
> False
> ....
> """
> 
> Running the example gives quite the opposite result (setuptools-0.6c11):
> 
>>>> parse_version('2.1-rc2') < parse_version('2.1')
> True
> 
> and actually it turns out that a pre-release tag 2.1rc2 is equal to
> the post-release tag 2.1-rc2
> 
>  >>> parse_version('2.1-rc2') == parse_version('2.1rc2')
> True
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why that's the case or is it a bug?

Likely a bug, due to the fact that nobody who could fix it uses
post-release tags (I can't see the point, myself) -- just make another
release already).



Tres.
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