On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> 2> The explanation for "suggest_rational_version" is stubbed out in the >> README.txt file: >> >> XXX explain here suggest_rational_version >> >> it should be documented what we expect it to do and that leads into... >> > > This README.txt is a bit outdated. It's an old copy of PEP 386 (which > explains suggest_rational_version) >> 4> The [#requrires] reference is missing from the README.txt file > I'll update it using the latest PEP 376 text
Ok, I'll look for those when I pull later tonight? > >> 3> test_suggest_rational_version needs a more comprehensive test suite >> (like all the version numbers from PyPi). Right now it only has 11 cases >> and they're all pretty mild though the doc asserts success rates on PyPi >> that are much higher. This should be done so that we can insure that the >> algorithm stays stable (and hopefully improves) in future versions. (I will >> create this expanded test using PyPi data, if requested). > > That would be great, May I have access please? >> 5> There is no cross reference to any other non-python project using >> this scheme. There is a note that "During Pycon, members of the Python, >> Ubuntu and Fedora community worked on a version standard that would be >> acceptable for everyone" but there is no evidence that anyone else has >> agreed to this standard and, particularly, to this reference implementation. > > I don't think any project uses this scheme yet, besides some Python projects. > What happened is that when we worked on this scheme, Toshio (Fedora) and > Matthias (Ubuntu/Debian) made sure it would be acceptable for their needs to > translate it in their own schemes automatically. > > For instance, RPMs want to avoid date-based versions, and Debian packages > avoids "-" characters. Ok, it would be great to have an example of an RPM or deb package showing the direct translation but no big deal. S _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
