Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:55:53PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>> Last, as I said in a previous mail, I tend to agree with the people >>> who said that we should stick with only one way to write the version >>> scheme for the sake of clarity. e.g. dropping aliases and picking >>> *one* way to write the markers after major.minor.micro. >>> >>> I would tend to pick the same scheme than Python for the pre-releases >>> (and c + rc): >>> >>> N.N[.N][(a|b|c|rc)N] >>> >>> And, for the post/dev markers I think dots are OK for readability, >> >> Sure, but readability and clarity means different things for >> different people. >> >> The reason I proposed aliases and underscores is to give package >> authors the choice of using terse forms or more verbose ones, as >> well as making the whole scheme more compatible to existing >> version strings already in use. >> > I'm not a big fan of underscores -- having multiple separators doesn't seem > very useful.
I'm not tied to those underscores, just think they'd help in making the strings more readable. > I don'tlike aliases but seeing as I like the long forms, having both short > and long but giving them a distinct ordering would be okay to me (ie: > > a1 < alpha1 < a2 < b1 < beta1 < c1 < rc1 That would also work. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 03 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
