[Distutils] PEP 426, round 733 ;)

[Erik Bray]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 10:49 AM, a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu wrote:
>
> Or until when somebody will explain if X.Y.devN comes before of after
> X.Y.N...
>
> Easy, before.

Which is explained in the PEP pretty clearly I thought. But if you're
still not sure there were lengthy discussions on this very mailing
list that led to that decision.  For what it's worth, there were
people who argued the opposite too, but eventually it seems like a
consensus was reached.