[Distutils] PEP 426, round 733 ;)

[Daniel Holth]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:37 AM, <a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu> wrote:

> Feel free to adopt whatever you think is the "best" practice: I don't
> understand
> what's wrong with 1.1.99 instead the "magic" 1.2b2.
>
> I followed these "lengthy discussions" .. if an agreement was found and was
> technically sound why do you think people still arguing about that? And
> we're
> talking years not hours to come up with those peps.
>

Its non-adopted, non-final predecessor turns 8 in April. Unfortunately
these kinds of things can be argued endlessly.

I like a joke from time to time: python -c 'print "1.2.dev1" < "1.2.1"' ->
> False
> Even easier in my unicors populated universe.
>

I'll simply ignore anything about those peps, for what it matters
>

In that case after these last objections are dropped let's accept this PEP.
Hooray! You can start generating Metadata 1.3 today with bdist_wheel, and
distribute already understands the Provides-Extra: feature used to
represent setuptools extras. Description-in-body-section is also
trouble-free with no changes to pkg_resources.


As a comparison, rubygems says (
http://guides.rubygems.org/patterns/#prerelease-gems)

Many gem developers have versions of their gem ready to go out for testing
or “edge” releases before a big gem release. RubyGems supports the concept
of “prerelease” versions, which could be betas, alphas, or anything else
that isn’t worthy of a real gem release yet.

Taking advantage of this is easy. All you need is one or more letters in
the gem version. For example, here’s what a prerelease gemspec’s
versionfield might look like:

Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name = "hola"
  s.version = "1.0.0.pre"

Other prerelease version numbers might include 2.0.0.rc1, or 1.5.0.beta.3.
It just has to have a letter in it, and you’re set. These gems can then be
installed with the --pre flag, like so:

Daniel Holth
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