Donovan Baarda wrote: > In my above diagrams the (>=2.1,<2.2) dependancy could be replaced with a > python-api-2.1 provided by python (as suggested by Neil), but I think this > actually introduces confusion rather than convenience. The problem is that it > doesn't really represent a particular version of the api, just a particular > version range of the "latest" python package.
It does represent the version of the API (for bytecode and the extension module binary interface). I suppose I am abusing it in the sense that only the "python" can provide it. If we go with your plan we drop -api bit and use python-X.Y instead. Neil