I agree *completely* with Philippe here. If a version standard will be enforced what's the point of making it more complicated that a sequential number or something along x.y.z? In the end that's what the version number is.
On Mon 04/02/13 16:31, "Philippe Ombredanne" pombreda...@nexb.com wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@g > mail.com> wrote: > As usual, PEP inline below and on the web > at > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ >> Version scheme > > ============== > > Version numbers must comply with the following > scheme:: > N.N[.N]+[{a|b|c|rc}N][.postN][.devN] > > > > Version numbers which do not comply with this scheme > are an error. Projects > which wish to use non-compliant version numbers must > restrict themselves > IMHO a version (or eventually its dot-separated segments with > precedence from left to right) should increase when sorted > lexicographically so it is never ambiguous for a human reading a list .... > Are we trying to make a version -- which is an engineering must -- > into something that has also some semantics about the level of > completion of a project or some "marketing" alert on the level of > maturity of a software release? Could we stay instead in the realm of > engineering? > > I think that trying to inject things like alpha, beta, post, dev, > release candidates and the likes in this is trying to bake in too many > things that are eventually just the practices of some projects and > should not be the frozen practice baked in a PEP. Instead, this > should be left to project authors to define their own scheme as long > as it sorts lexicographically (eventually by segments, with precedence > from left to right). > > -- > Philippe Ombredanne > > +1 650 799 0949 | pombredanne@n > exB.com DejaCode Enterprise at http://www.dejacode.com nexB Inc. at http://www.nexb.com _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
