[Distutils] version scheme: a case for dropping ".devNNN" and ".postNNN"

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 16:07:35 CEST 2009


2009/6/11 Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com>:
> The suggestion seems to be that projects using post releases should instead
> just add another component to their version.  This would make the current
> version of Twisted 8.2.0.27002.

That seems fine to me. DVCS users (where changeset IDs are SHA ids and
not comparable) might have an issue, but that's going to be true of
any scheme.

Paul.


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