[Distutils] Is there an official stable release of setuptools?

[Rob Cakebread]

Dave Peterson wrote:

> However, there are others who think 'stable' just means that we've
> found, in our own testing, that things generally work as advertised and
> that really, our build process is building correctly.
>

I think you'll find that this is how most software packagers (check
any Linux distribution) do it, after the package has been in the
testing or unstable branch for a reasonable amount of time.

Also, you may find you have to mark a pre-alpha package stable the day
it's released if the previous stable version has a serious security
issue.