On 17-08-29 15:58:55, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2017-08-29 10:30:42 -0500 (-0500), Matthew Thode wrote: > [...] > > 3. reversion. Start new versions at 3000 or something, kinda > > dirty imo. > > And sort of a 3.1 option is to prepend a PEP 440 version epoch: > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#version-epochs > > Challenge there is that, while Git can handle a ! in a tag name, PBR > doesn't know to sort that after implicit 0 epochs nor does a lot of > our release automation have the ability to cope with version epochs > and adding support for them would entail a lot of careful work and > thorough testing. Also having upstream epochs could wreak havoc with > downstream distro package maintainers, look confusing in > tarball/wheel filenames (hopefully all modern platforms are at least > not going to break when there's a ! in a filename), and so on. > > The concerns were touched on in this thread from 2015 when the > versioning changes were going into effect: > > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-July/069085.html > > Pretty unlikely to happen if you ask me. I'm just bringing it up > preemptively since odds are someone else with less history/memory of > the scenarios we discussed back then is likely to bring it up as a > silver bullet solution otherwise. > -- > Jeremy Stanley
I almost mentioned that, but as you said, the barrier to entry there is so high. -- Matthew Thode
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