[Distutils] PEP 386 status - last round here ?

Floris Bruynooghe floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 23:29:19 CET 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:52:45PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> BTW: How would you name a snapshot using the scheme ?

> 
> Say you are working on an upcoming version 3.2.0 of a package and you
> use the date as snapshot indicator (as opposed to some revision, which
> doesn't have any meaning for an end-user).
> 
> I suppose this is the only way:
> 
> 	3.2.0a0.20091125
> 
> ... not very obvious :-(

I think it would be this: 3.2.0a0.dev20091125

But given that you came up with something else the non-obvious
argument might be valid.


> If we'd allow [a-z_] (including the underscore which AFAIK doesn't
> cause RPM/deb problems), this could also be written as:
> 
> 	3.2.0_dev_snapshot.20091125
> 
> ... much better :-)

Now this would be 3.2.0.dev20091125


Regards
Floris


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