[Distutils] PEP 426, round 733 ;)

[Donald Stufft]

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 5:35 AM, a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu wrote:
> Ideally it would be something that connects to the source revision number (as in
> subversion) or the integral id or even a timestamp (that's what an exported
> version must be).

Timestamp or reversion number is not overall useful number for a version and
here's why: Django (for example) maintains older versions for a set period of time,
If you do it via timestamps than 1.1.1 which happens to be released after 1.2.0 (because
of a security issue or glaring bug) will be considered "newer". Handwaving the problem
away with a source revision number or timestamp ignores a fundamental property
of a version.
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