On Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > In re-reading PEP 386, I noticed that the "Version Specifiers" section > explicitly excludes post releases like "2.5.post1" or "2.5.1.post1" > from matching a request for "2.5". I can understand excluding all > pre-releases from a general request like "2.5", but why exclude post > releases? Aren't those intended to fix minor release issues that don't > warrant a version number bump? As in, if I have a choice between > "2.5", "2.5.post1" and "2.5.post2", isn't "2.5.post2" going to be the > one I want, rather than "2.5"? > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com (mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com) | Brisbane, > Australia > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > (mailto:Distutils-SIG@python.org) > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
I agree with this understanding fwiw. Makes sense to me.
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