On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: > On 9/11/12 9:25 PM, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> But you could still release 2.5.1.0.0? I suppose we limit the number >>> of version parts these days. >>> >>> Why don't we update the spec so that (2.0) means (2.0) the range, and >>> (==2.0) means 2.0 (exactly). >>> >>> Daniel >> >> The PEP is ambiguous on this, but you could get away with reading it >> as "When a version is provided (without a conditional operator) it >> always includes all versions that start with the same value". >> Although it's unwritten in the PEP exactly how the operators are meant >> to be interpreted, I would say they should be interpreted strictly. > > > Yeah that's what we wanted to do back then, I recall now. > > +1 for the clarification - since it's just rephrasing thing we don't need a > new PEP I guess > > and we can fix the implementations > > Cheers > Tarek
We do have a new PEP anyway. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ Metadata 1.3 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig