[Biopython-dev] Switching to PEP440 compliant versioning for our development code

[Leighton Pritchard]

I’m in favour of moving to PEP440-compliance.

> On 23 Jun 2016, at 15:49, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> I meant to send this to the dev mailing list, CC'd, but
> any comments from the wider Biopython community
> are also welcome.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Biopythoneers,
>> 
>> Currently we use a simple two level versioning scheme
>> of 1.N for Biopython (currently at 1.67), which is all fine for
>> the recent PEP standards which are important for when
>> we release code via PyPI, and determining dependencies
>> and ordering releases.
>> 
>> However, as currently documented on our release process,
>> in between releases we append a plus, currently 1.67+,
>> and these versions are not PEP440 compliant.
>> 
>> http://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
>> 
>> The closest equivalent in the standard to 1.67+ (which we
>> are using to mean after 1.67 but before 1.68) would be
>> a post release, e.g. 1.67.post
>> 
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#post-releases
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/#version-specifiers
>> 
>> However, having read PEP440, I think it would be clearer
>> to use 1.78.dev (a development pre-release of what will
>> be 1.68) instead?
>> 
>> This still allows for alpha, beta and release candidates
>> should we need them, e.g. 1.78.dev, 1.78a, 1.78b, 1.78rc,
>> 1.78 etc.
>> 
>> i.e. Rather than currently using 1.67, 1.67+, 1.68, 1.68+, ...
>> I am proposing we use 1.67, 1.68.dev, 1.68, 1.69.dev, ...
>> 
>> Note that pushing development releases to PyPI is frowned
>> on, and I am not advocating we do that. This should only
>> be of interest for people who have installed from our git
>> development repository.
>> 
>> Peter
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