Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mardi 30 septembre 2008 à 16:36 +0100, Chris Withers a écrit :
No, the problem we have today is that some developers are providing
modules without API stability, which means you cannot simply depend on a
module, you need a specific version.
This problem is never going away, it's the nature of software.
It doesn’t have to go away per se, but we need proper ways to deal with
incompatible changes in the interfaces.
Well, the generally accepted way seems to be to increase the major
version number...
In Python libraries, this is not possible without changing the code,
since the file name and the module name are the same.
The distribution name and package/module name do not have to be the same...
It will suffice, but we will not be able to manage it in distributions
if you allow too many weird things to be specified in these
dependencies.
Explain "too many weird things"...
Chris
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