Thanks Donald, updating setuptools was the factor I missed, not Python 2 vs. 3.
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 5:06:59 PM UTC-5, Donald Stufft wrote: > > > On Nov 17, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Tim Graham <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > There was a small hiccup with the 1.9 release candidate yesterday. Unless > there is some other conflating factor that I missed, generating release > packages using Python 2 will yield a name like "Django-1.9c1.tar.gz" while > Python 3 yields "Django-1.9rc1.tar.gz" ('rc' instead of 'c'). Yesterday's > release must have been the first release candidate to be generated using > Python 3, and this broke the download page because > django.utils.version.get_version() (which the website uses) returns "c1" > for the file name instead of "rc1". I put in a (perhaps temporary) fix to > correct this: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/547 > > Do you think it's correct to make the change in Django itself? > https://github.com/django/django/pull/5676 -- I didn't track down the > reason why this changed in Python. > While get_version() isn't a public API, it's widely used according to > GitHub search. > > > Whoever generated the tarballs is probably using a version of setuptools > older than 8.0 in their Python 2 environment and a version of setuptools > newer than 8.0 in their Python 3 environment. > > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/e02a697f-36c4-4604-b484-1907919a6a54%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
