On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:49:55AM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > so I don't see much of a problem with breaking > forward compatibility in this case.
Indeed, but equally so I don't see an advantage in breaking forward compatibility in this case (i.e. underscores in PEP 386 don't allow us to express something that we otherwise couldn't) so PJE's argument of practicality vs purity still wins IMHO. And besides setuptools isn't alone in not liking underscores in versions, it's just that the others manually translate the versions before using it so can work around it. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
