Re: [pygame] Announce: pygame 1.8.0rc4 tar ball.

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

The msi installer actually uses the version number to decide if a file 
should be replaced. Of course Microsoft uses a specific numbering 
scheme. So the msi installer builder in Python 2.5 distutils must 
translate the version number in setup.py. It can handle a's and b's but 
has no clue what to do with rc's so raises an exception. I have been 
changing setup.py by hand, so the msi versions I release differ from the 
formal releases. Also, if I forget I have changed setup.py and commit 
some change to SVN the version number I use will be accidentally 
committed as well. But then if we are close to the last release 
candidate then it is not a big issue. I have made the new changes 
available under sv4, but will change to whatever is decided.

Lenard


René Dudfield wrote:
> Why can't it use the other naming scheme again?
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> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I suggest calling the release 1.8.0a1 or 1.8.0b1 or something so it
> >  works nicely with the msi installer on Windows.
> >
> >  Lenard
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