[Distutils] PEP 426, round 733 ;)

[a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu]

I agree *completely* with Philippe here.

If a version standard will be enforced what's the point of making it more
complicated that a sequential number or something along x.y.z? In the end that's
what the version number is.




On Mon 04/02/13 16:31, "Philippe Ombredanne" pombredanne at nexb.com wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at g
> mail.com> wrote:
> As usual, PEP inline below and on the web
> at
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/
>> Version scheme
> > ==============
> > Version numbers must comply with the following
> scheme::
>     N.N[.N]+[{a|b|c|rc}N][.postN][.devN]
> >
> > Version numbers which do not comply with this scheme
> are an error. Projects
> which wish to use non-compliant version numbers must
> restrict themselves

> IMHO a version (or eventually its dot-separated segments with
> precedence from left to right) should increase when sorted
> lexicographically so it is never ambiguous for a human reading a list
....
> Are we trying to make a version -- which is an engineering must --
> into something that  has also some semantics about the level of
> completion of a project or some "marketing" alert on the level of
> maturity of a software release? Could we stay instead in the realm of
> engineering?
> 
> I think that trying to inject things like alpha, beta, post,  dev,
> release candidates and the likes in this is trying to bake in too many
> things that are eventually just the practices of some  projects and
> should not be the frozen practice baked in a PEP.  Instead, this
> should be left to project authors to define their own scheme as long
> as it sorts lexicographically (eventually by segments, with precedence
> from left to right).
> 
> -- 
> Philippe Ombredanne
> 
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