On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:03:45 -0800, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@[...].com>   
wrote:

>  If I understand correctly, ActiveState has its own releases of
>  python-ldap repackaged in pypm files,
>  and has several releases per python-ldap versions.

Correct. Much like what Linux distributions (like debian) do.

>  So, why it doesn't have its own versions ? like: 2.3.10.2 in that
>  case. (following a PEP 386-compatible scheme)
>  So this would be:
> 
> >>> egginfo_dirname('python-ldap', '2.3.10.2')
>  'python_ldap-2.3.10.2.egg-info'

Because python-ldap may release a similar version in future. We don't have  
to cause collisions. This is why the release version is not part of  
package version in the *.pypm filename.

I actually now think that storing the release number inside the .egg-info/  
directory may be a better idea. Like:

$ cat python_ldap-2.3.10.egg-info/pypm.txt
release: 2
$

What do you think?

-srid


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