[Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 01:32:44 CEST 2015


On 7 September 2015 at 02:09, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> One thought that comes to mind is how to present specs that deal with
> formats and artifacts that persist for years.
>
> For example, down the road when there's Wheel 2.0, what's the "Current
> Specs" for wheel?
>
> I would describe 2.0 is the "Latest" spec, but "Current Specs" includes all
> versions we're attempting to support, so we'd want the "Current Specs" page
> to easily show all the versions, and not have to dig them out from version
> control or something, right?

Yes, but I think that's easy enough to handle by having a default URL
that always goes to the latest version of the spec, and moving
previous versions to URLs that include the version number.

Cheers,
Nick.

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