Bradley M. Froehle, 01.08.2012 18:35: > Yes, this versioning has also impacted mpi4py which had to add some pretty > ugly code in setup.py to work around it: > > https://code.google.com/p/mpi4py/source/detail?r=841e9df > >> I am not sure what is the status on PEP 386 [1] (not yet adopted afaik)
It's in state "Accepted". > but it might be worthwhile following it and/or existing >> disutils.version.StrictVersion since having >> >> In [2]: Cython.__version__ >> Out[2]: '0.17.beta1' >> >> is not digested well by some depending projects -- there were 2 failures to >> build against this beta release of Cython in Debian due to difficulty with >> parsing the version -- bzr and xpra I believe [2]. So may be it is worth >> making it '0.17b1' (and use corresponding tags accordingly)? I guess so. That would fit the StrictVersion scheme. Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
