On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 16:15 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:00:56PM -0500, Brad Allen wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > However, now that you mention it, ISTR that this is the way that it was > > > originally and the lack of pre/dev in that position did bother another > > > (set > > > of?) the PEP authors enough that it was changed. For me, switching the > > > search order of that particular piece is a bikeshed so I seem to have > > > reallocated the memory for storing the arguments made in favor of shifting > > > it to the current position :-) > > > > Why is this perceived as a bikeshed issue? It seems like a discussion > > about substantial functionality which is tied to the semantics of these > > special tags. For many projects and organizations, terms like 'alpha' > > and 'beta' and 'dev' have meaning in a release context, and rearranging > > the order of these concepts has an impact. > > > dev has no universal defined relation to alpha, beta, etc in a release > context.
The tools that people use to install a Python package sort it before alpha and have for many years. That seems to be a pretty good argument in favor, all other things considered. - C _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig