Excellent rationale sections. Let Extension: Name be legal without Name/ fields. Perhaps you would do that to ask that the extension just needs to interpret the standard metadata.
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> .devN, aN, bN, cN, rcN, <no suffix>, .postN > > ok, cool. my concern was that the general nature ".dev" might be lost, > but it's not. > > i.e. what Toshio was talking about last year when he said: > "People were very clear that they wanted to be able to stick dev versions > in the middle of their attempt to release alphas, betas, rcs, and finals." > i.e. stuff like this "1.0a1.dev1". > > as for existing projects using the top-level "X.Ydev" form (i.e. no "."), > I guess whenever they end up rebuilding a dist using a tool that's writing > 1.3 metadata, I guess the hope would be that those tools would warn or fail > and say, "you need to convert your scheme..." > > Marcus > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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