[Distutils] PEP 386 and post-releases

[Donald Stufft]

On Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> In re-reading PEP 386, I noticed that the "Version Specifiers" section
> explicitly excludes post releases like "2.5.post1" or "2.5.1.post1"
> from matching a request for "2.5". I can understand excluding all
> pre-releases from a general request like "2.5", but why exclude post
> releases? Aren't those intended to fix minor release issues that don't
> warrant a version number bump? As in, if I have a choice between
> "2.5", "2.5.post1" and "2.5.post2", isn't "2.5.post2" going to be the
> one I want, rather than "2.5"?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
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I agree with this understanding fwiw. Makes sense to me. 
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