Oups messed up sorry -> resending my answer On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Brian Sutherland <br...@vanguardistas.net> wrote: >> - http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/pep-0386.txt > > ... < V('1.0.dev456') > ... < V('1.0') > ... < V('1.0.dev456post623') > > Looks like a typo or very un-intuitive. It doesn't seem right that a > "dev" version sorts after a full release.
This is a dev version of a post-release version. Which is an edge case submitted by Phillip. How would you write it ? > >> >> - PEP 376 | status : waiting for Phillip complementary feedback (and >> anyone else of course) > > > I can imagine distutils uninstalling files previously installed by dpkg > as a shortcut to breaking a machine. Though I'm not sure what will > actually happen in practice. Distutils defines a standard for an EGG-INFO structure, and provides a API for the uninstallation that is more likely to be a reference implementation. Although, It is already providing an install feature. If uninstalling a package with Distutils, while it was installed by dpkg breaks, I can imagine that in the very same system, you can also break it if you *install* packages with Distutils, easy_install, pip because you shortcut dpkg as well. I think this is the responsability of such a system to make sure it handles all installation and uninstallation. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
