[Distutils] PEP 386 and post-releases

2013-02-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
In re-reading PEP 386, I noticed that the Version Specifiers section explicitly excludes post releases like 2.5.post1 or 2.5.1.post1 from matching a request for 2.5. I can understand excluding all pre-releases from a general request like 2.5, but why exclude post releases? Aren't those intended to

Re: [Distutils] PEP 386 and post-releases

2013-02-02 Thread Donald Stufft
On Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: In re-reading PEP 386, I noticed that the Version Specifiers section explicitly excludes post releases like 2.5.post1 or 2.5.1.post1 from matching a request for 2.5. I can understand excluding all pre-releases from a general request