Re: [Distutils] version for VCS/local builds between alpha and release

2015-04-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
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

Re: [Distutils] version for VCS/local builds between alpha and release

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Collins
Thanks. There's still a little too much negative there for me - if I propose a diff here would that be ok? On 16 April 2015 at 11:26, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 Apr 2015 04:04, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: Tl;dr: I woud like to change PEP-440 to remove the

Re: [Distutils] version for VCS/local builds between alpha and release

2015-04-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 15 April 2015 at 19:33, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: Thanks. There's still a little too much negative there for me - if I propose a diff here would that be ok? Sure, or a PR against the GitHub mirror:

[Distutils] version for VCS/local builds between alpha and release

2015-04-14 Thread Robert Collins
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

Re: [Distutils] version for VCS/local builds between alpha and release

2015-04-14 Thread Joost Molenaar
On 14 April 2015 at 10:04, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: 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

Re: [Distutils] version for VCS/local builds between alpha and release

2015-04-14 Thread Robert Collins
On 14 April 2015 at 23:31, Joost Molenaar j.j.molen...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 10:04, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: 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