On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why does 1.0a1 sort before 1.0.dev1? It appears to me that common > usage in the wild of dev1 releases is that they are used for the > development version before any sort of alpha, beta, rc, or final has > been cut?
If I had to guess, the rationale might be that when developing a new version you're developing toward the first "alpha" release, so something like .dev1 would be a development preview of a final release after all a/b/rc pre-releases have been released. That said, this doesn't match my workflow at all. After releasing "1.0" the next version is going to be "1.1", and any development pre-release will be "1.1.devX". "1.1a" might not ever even exist. I think others brought up this critique at the time PEP 386 was being discussed, but then nothing was ever done about it >_> Erik _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig