[Distutils] Differences in PEP386 and setuptools

[Erik Bray]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> So to be more complete, the proposal is to do this::
>
> 0.1
>   < 0.1.post1
>   < 1.0.dev1        # The .dev that's changing position
>   < 1.0a1.dev1
>   < 1.0a1
>   < 1.0a1.post1
>   < 1.0b1.dev1
>   < 1.0b1
>   < 1.0b1.post1
>   < 1.0c1.dev1
>   < 1.0c1
>   < 1.0c1.post1
>                     # The current PEP386 position of 1.0.dev1
>   < 1.0
>   < 1.0.post1
>

This looks perfect to me, and very unambiguous.  Allowing the .dev and
.post modifiers at every release stage I think clears up the issue
here better than any other proposal.  +1.

(This is also semantically the same as semver--just not syntactically
the same. I like semver but I think we're stuck with the existing
syntax which is fine.)

Erik