[Distutils] Review of latest draft of PEP 426 (Python package etadata v1.3)

[Marcus Smith]

> with the modification that when a tool sees an unqualified "X.Y.dev"
> or "X.Y.Z.dev" release (i.e. any release where the "dev" immediately
> follows the purely numeric component of the version), that should be
> reinterpreted as if there was an "a0" component (as in "X.Y.a0.dev" or
> "X.Y.Z.a0.dev") between the numeric component and the "dev" component
> and sorted accordingly.
>
>
this is confusing because there is no form like "X.Y.a0" in pep386?
 there's this "X.Ya0"
not sure what's a typo or not here?  at first, I was thinking you meant
"X.Ydev" and not "X.Y.dev", but not sure now.
the thread from a while back was largely concerned with how to handle the
very common "top-level" use of "dev" (i.e. 'X.Ydev')

Marcus
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