[Zope-dev] [Checkins] SVN: zope.app.security/trunk/ keep trunk version at 0. Update changes

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 2009-9-10 22:23, Benji York wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Hanno Schlichting<hanno at hannosch.eu>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Alex Chapman<achapman at zope.com>  wrote:
>>> Log message for revision 103721:
>>>   keep trunk version at 0. Update changes
>>
>> I think I've seen the practice of denoting the version on trunk as
>> "zero" from Jim already.
>>
>> It is in conflict with
>> http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/process/releasing-software.html
>> though.
>>
>> The majority of packages still uses the "version='3.4.2dev'" scheme
>> for trunk or branches. Pointing to the next release to be made with a
>> dev marker.
>>
>> Are there any particular reasons, why this policy should be changed?
>
> I like "0" for two reasons:
>
> 1) it doesn't require predicting what the next release will be,
>
> 2) if you accidentally make a trunk release no one will accedentally use it
>     because it will be the "oldest" release on PyPI instead of the newest,

Doesn't it break all versioned dependencies on that package?

Wichert.

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