On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, January 28, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > I would add to the currently supported values "semantic" > (http://semver.org/) > as this scheme is widely used and is easy to support. > > Currently, distlib supports a number of version schemes: > > "legacy" - setuptools ordering - most liberal > "normalized" - PEP 386 - not really compatible with semantic versioning > "semantic" - http://semver.org/ > > Please no, PEP386 or semver, not both.
One of the goals of metadata 1.3 is to be better able to describe what people *currently* do, rather than the metadata 1.2 approach which required people to change their approach to version numbering before they could comply with the new schema (and hence ran afoul of https://xkcd.com/927/). This approach places an additional burden on tools developers to support more versioning schemes, but lowers the barrier to adoption for the other aspects of the new metadata format. The specific intent of adding Version-Scheme is to relax the version numbering requirement from "you *must* use PEP 386 version numbering" to "you *should* use PEP 386 version numbering for new projects, but if you're already using a different versioning scheme, here's how to indicate the scheme you're actually using". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
