[Cython] Cython 0.17 final released

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<lists at onerussian.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> > Any chance we can tag the official 0.17 release in Github as well?
>> BTW, do we use lightweight tags or annotated tags in git? And why?
>
> you should use annotated -a (and/or signed -s, which are annotated) tags
>
> you do not use annotated tags:
>
> $> git describe upstream/master
> fatal: No annotated tags can describe 'd0cf23e7dadebdb31064ef8c1fddeaef049622dc'.
> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
>
> $> git describe --tags upstream/master
> 0.17.1-26-gd0cf23e
>
> why should you use them?
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4971746/why-should-i-care-about-lightweight-vs-annotated-tags

I haven't given it much thought before now, but you make a nice point
for annotated tags.

- Robert