[Zope-dev] Re: bad "zope.size" to remove from PyPI

[Paul Winkler]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 05:23:14PM -0400, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Benji York <benji at zope.com> wrote:
> > Still, it's likely that someone was using it and their buildouts are now
> > broken.  We should have instead generated a proper release with a higher
> > version number and left the dev release alone.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> It would be even better if PyPI refused registrations of dev versions.

That would be good.

What I don't understand about this thread is why 3.4dev was "newer"
than 3.4.0.  Doesn't PyPi use the same versioning rules as setuptools?

$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 20 2008, 01:20:16) 
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
f>>> from pkg_resources import parse_version
>>> parse_version('3.4dev-r73090') < parse_version('3.4.0')
True

So what exactly was the problem?

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Paul Winkler
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