[Product-Developers] conventions on version numbering

[Guido Stevens]

Oops correction: 1.2.3dev > 1.2.3rc1
1.2.3rc1 = 1.2.3.rc1 = 1.2.3-rc1 = 1.2.3.c

rc = .rc = -rc = c
dev follows c

So using .dev as if it were equal or before alpha is faulty. A dev release is between beta and final.

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On 30 okt. 2013, at 22:00, Guido Stevens <guido.stevens at cosent.net> wrote:

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> On 30 okt. 2013, at 21:00, Johannes Raggam <raggam-nl at adm.at> wrote:
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>> Regarding versioning schemes: Comparing the versioning scheme section
>> described in conventions.rst, which I wrote and the scheme described on
>> http://semver.org/ - there are some differences regarding pre-release
>> versions. They require pre-release versions to be seperated by a hyphen,
>> like "1.2.3-rc1". I tend to use "1.2.3rc1" or "1.2.3dev" for this.
>> 
>> And then, the hitchhikers guide suggests again something different:
>> "1.2.3.rc1"
>> http://guide.python-distribute.org/specification.html#development-releases
>> 
>> Any suggestions or any experiences, how setuptools compares versions?
> 
> Those 4 variants are equivalent.
> 
> http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/setuptools.html
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