[Distutils] Differences in PEP386 and setuptools

[Éric Araujo]

Le 27/09/2012 11:59, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> * a, b, c, and rc are the typical alpha beta release candidate tags.  We
>   debated whether to allow the single letter versions or the long versions
>   "alpha", "beta", "rc".  In the end, which set of tags was used was
>   a bikeshed argument so it was chosen by PEP-author decree.  I personally
>   felt that having both "c" and "rc" was counter to the goals of the PEP but
>   we at least agreed that "rc" would intuitively sort after "c" so it wasn't
>   as bad as having both "alpha" and "a" where there would be no intuitively
>   correct sorting.

Well, c and rc should really compare equal in my opinion.