[Distutils] PEP 426, round 733 ;)

[a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu]

Mine wasn't an objection: it was a plain refusal.


On Wed 06/02/13 18:00, "Daniel Holth" dholth at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:37 AM,  wrote:
> Feel free to adopt whatever you think is the "best" practice: I dont
> understand
> whats 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 were
> 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.
> 
> Ill simply ignore anything about those peps, for what it matters
> 
> In that case after these last objections are dropped lets 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 [1])
> 
> 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 version field might look like: 
> 
> Gem::Specification.new do |s| s.name [2] = "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
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://guides.rubygems.org/patterns/#prerelease-gems
> [2] http://s.name
> 
>