[Distutils] PEP386 Pre releases

[Erik Bray]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't the pep carefully constructed to respect lexicographical sorting?

Yes.  That's why it's ".dev" and not just "dev".  Lexicographically,
"1.0.dev" < "1.0a".

> On Sep 12, 2012 1:44 PM, "Erik Bray" <erik.m.bray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Why does 1.0a1 sort before 1.0.dev1? It appears to me that common
>> > usage in the wild of dev1 releases is that they are used for the
>> > development version before any sort of alpha, beta, rc, or final has
>> > been cut?
>>
>> If I had to guess, the rationale might be that when developing a new
>> version you're developing toward the first "alpha" release, so
>> something like .dev1 would be a development preview of a final release
>> after all a/b/rc pre-releases have been released.
>>
>> That said, this doesn't match my workflow at all.  After releasing
>> "1.0" the next version is going to be "1.1", and any development
>> pre-release will be "1.1.devX".  "1.1a" might not ever even exist.  I
>> think others brought up this critique at the time PEP 386 was being
>> discussed, but then nothing was ever done about it >_>
>>
>> Erik
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