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[Python-Dev] Version updates etc.

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:57:07 +0100 
From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org>
> Maybe it's time for a quick informative PEP explaining where, when and
> how version numbers, copyright dates and the like should be updated?
> This info is currently spread all over the place (PEP 101 and 102 have
> some, the rest in in the minds of various PythonLabs folks).

This PEP should also define the policy for the distutils version
number - when there is one. Maybe distutils should simply use the
Python version number, because Python is released more often than
distutils.

Thomas