On 7/24/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Straw has emphasized that the current strategy of appending the > SVN version number to development versions of the SVN tree makes it hard > to do version sorting.
I am not sure what the problem is, but if the concern is that >>> '0.9.9.2803' > '0.9.9' True I suggest fixing that by appending '.final' to the release version string: >>> '0.9.9.2803' > '0.9.9.final' False If we are going to make any changes in this area, I would suggest following python sys and define three variables: numpy.version (human readable string including compiler info), numpy.version_info (sortable tuple) and numpy.hexversion (sortable integer that can be used by C preprocessor). I am not sure if python sys includes svn revision number in sys.version (I don't have svn version of python around), but it does include it in beta sys.version: >>> print sys.version 2.5b2 (r25b2:50512, Jul 18 2006, 15:22:50) [GCC 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
