Ben Finney wrote:
Gerry Reno writes:
We have an application, foo-5.0.0, and we want to put out some
pre-release candidates for testing, so we set the version to
"5.0.0_rc1" in setup.py.
That's where your problems start (as you no doubt surmised). If you
want version numbers to compar
Gerry Reno writes:
> We have an application, foo-5.0.0, and we want to put out some
> pre-release candidates for testing, so we set the version to
> "5.0.0_rc1" in setup.py.
That's where your problems start (as you no doubt surmised). If you
want version numbers to compare in a certain order, yo
I've been trying to use the "built distribution" distutils commands such
as bdist_rpm to create distro-specific packages for python applications
but I'm running into some thorny issues specifically with pre-release
versioning of source distributions and built distributions and how to
get a "fin
