On Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > I would very much like to move everyone to semver (in practice a subset that > is compatible with the file naming conventions, you probably won't get far if > your version contains a dash -). The setuptools behaviour is the most > practical scheme in use in the Python community. I've made most of the > suggested edits to the PEP. It hurts to have multiple version schemes in > concurrent use. > I have mixed feelings on semver (and PEP386), but double amen to that it hurts to have multiple version schemes in concurrent use, specially when all 3 are (at least in way or another) incompatible with each other. Personally I think PEP386 (with a tweak to it to make it compatible with setuptools) is the proper step forward for Python because it's an easier transition than semver.
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