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

[Jim Fulton]

On Nov 3, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Philipp von Weitersehausen wrote:

> 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.
>
> As far as I see (and apparently Jim, too, since he agreed to use  
> this policy) it's the best compromise between
>
> - making sure that nobody creates releases from the trunk (hence  
> the "dev" marker)
>
> - giving development eggs from the trunk or a release branch a  
> *meaningful* revision number (hence the version bump you find so  
> silly)

Consider this an edict.  (Not if I can just remember to add "dev"....)

Thanks for putting this together,

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation