[Distutils] SOLVED: bdist_rpm and pre-release python packages / eggs (was: pre-release versioning problems with sdist, bdist_rpm, bdist_debian)

[Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)]

El Miércoles 11 Marzo 2009, Gerry Reno escribió:

> Ok, Mandriva comes to mind.  It's policy is different and allows more
> flexibility than Fedora's.

Well, would you be so kind to link the Mandriva policy for us to read about 
it?

>
> Besides, policies are meant for humans.  And policies change.  We don't
> need distro policies hard-coded into Distutils.  That makes for brittle
> code.

So what you're saying, in effect, translates to "sorry, man, you cannot build 
your Plone packages for RPM distributions, nor can anybody else build any sort 
of pre-release eggs either".  Well, sorry, man, that's not acceptable.

> Why?  A distro's policy is defined for 'human' behavior for users of
> that distro.  Users of distro X should not be hostage to policies of
> distro Y.   'version' and 'release' should be formatted by humans for
> whatever distro is the target.  There should be no enforcement of any
> distro's  'packaging policy' over the fields.

Policy schmolicy, the current distutils behavior builds pre-release RPMs that 
UPGRADE final release packages, which is broken and stupid because distutils 
ought to be taking care of the impedance mismatch between python-style 
versioning and RPM-style lexicographical versioning, but it doesn't.  I have a 
solution that works in fedora, rhel and centos, and likely works just as well 
on other RPM distros including Mandriva and SUSE.  Do you have an alternative 
solution?  No?  Then let's stop discussing this because what you're saying 
sounds like a baseless complaint on the grounds of abstract pureness instead 
of practical results.

> Regards,
> Gerry


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