[Distutils] Differences in PEP386 and setuptools

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 19:50:07 CEST 2012


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> 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.
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Does that mean p == np?

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