[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 386 for addition (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 12:31:29 CET 2009

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Ben Finney [..]

Yes, I'm referring to the discussion that were had over “why do we want special keywords that mess with the default alphanumerical ordering of version string components?” discussion. That needs to be addressed in the PEP, since it's germane to the explanation for the PEP's existence.

I've started to add another section in the PEP to summarize this discussion but then I realized that we are already giving the answer in the PEP in the "Requisites and current status"

I made it clearer though, by adding an extra sentence with an example.

Requesite #2 : """ 2. most projects need special meaning versions for "pre-releases" (such as "alpha", "beta", "rc"), and these have widely used aliases ("a" stands for "alpha", "b" for "beta" and "c" for "rc"). And these pre-release versions makes it impossible to use a simple alphanumerical ordering of the version string components. (Example: 3.1a1 < 3.1) """

Let me know if you think this is enough and addresses your concern,

Regards Tarek

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