On 14 Apr 2015 04:04, "Robert Collins" <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > > Tl;dr: I woud like to change PEP-440 to remove the stigmata around dev > versions that come between pre-releases and releases. > > The basic scenario here is developers and CD deployers building > versions from VCS of arbitrary commits. So we need to be able to > deliver strictly increasing version numbers, automatically, without > interfering with actual publishing of pre-release and release versions > to PyPI. We'd had a previous request for a similar clarification around local version identifiers, so I've finally tweaked the PEP to clarify that both that admonition and this one relate specifically to *published* versions, rather than what folks do with their local or CI builds.
See https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/bf4ffb364faf for the exact wording change. Cheers, Nick.
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