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Pointlessmy anal; but 0.0.0a6 is very strongly indicative of the sixth alpha release. Pre-alpha are much better as .dev releases.
by ZiiS 1y ago
Pointlessmy anal; but 0.0.0a6 is very strongly indicative of the sixth alpha release. Pre-alpha are much better as .dev releases.
- usr9012809 1y ago> Pre-alpha are much better as .dev releases. No, they are correctly using semantic versioning to indicate pre-alpha releases. https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/releases https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/releases https://semver.org/ https://semver.org/
- kstrauser 1y agoPython doesn’t use plain semver: https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/
- zahlman 1y agoThe reference Python implementation, written in C, doesn't use semver. But other projects in the Python ecosystem are generally assumed to unless stated otherwise. For example, Setuptools does (but not pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/development/release-process/ https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/development/release-process/).
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- fastball 1y agoIt is the sixth alpha release. They haven't yet released a stable version – this is their sixth alpha release before that. What am I missing here?
- ZiiS 1y agoI was replying to a post that said "Please be aware this is pre-alpha software." presumably trying to make a distinction from "alpha software".