[Distutils] New draft of PEP 426

[Daniel Holth]

Excellent rationale sections.

Let Extension: Name be legal without Name/ fields. Perhaps you would do
that to ask that the extension just needs to interpret the standard
metadata.


On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> >> .devN, aN, bN, cN, rcN, <no suffix>, .postN
>
> ok, cool.  my concern was that the general nature ".dev" might be lost,
> but it's not.
>
> i.e. what Toshio was talking about last year when he said:
> "People were very clear that they wanted to be able to stick dev versions
> in the middle of their attempt to release alphas, betas, rcs, and finals."
> i.e. stuff like this "1.0a1.dev1".
>
> as for existing projects using the top-level "X.Ydev" form (i.e. no "."),
> I guess whenever they end up rebuilding a dist using a tool that's writing
> 1.3 metadata, I guess the hope would be that those tools would warn or fail
> and say, "you need to convert your scheme..."
>
> Marcus
>
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