[Zope-dev] Re: [Checkins] SVN: zc.i18n/trunk/setup.py vb

[Philipp von Weitersehausen]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Stephan Richter wrote:
>> On Saturday 03 November 2007, Benji York wrote:
>>> Therefore, anyone editing the trunk version numbers needs add "dev" (no
>>> hyphen) on the end.  Thanks.
>> I just reread Jim's edict E-mail about the topic and noticed that I indeed 
>> missed the "dev" postfix. That changes nothing about the fact that I still 
>> think this is totally silly.
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> I'll agree -- I don't want the trunk to have *any* version number in it,
> because I don't want anyone to even think about doing a release from the
> trunk.  It wouldn't need changing, either.

I'd like that too, but it breaks the expectations you'd have about the 
development egg that's defined by a trunk checkout. It needs a 
meaningful version number to satisfy version constraints like 
z3c.foopkg>=1.3.