On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Chris Jerdonek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > > Remember, part of the goals of both PEP 386 and PEP 426 is to tighten > > up cases where setuptools is considered too permissive, because it's > > guessing in the face of ambiguity. "Trailing zeroes should be > > considered implied" when comparing versions is one such guess. > > > > It goes against the common usage in the Python community. > > > > * 135869 total releases > > * 66528 total releases that have at least 3 version levels (A.B.C) > > * 20244 total releases that have at least 3 version levels where A.B and > > A.B.0 appear to be equivalent[1]. > > * 86 total releases using at least 3 version levels where A.B and A.B.0 > > appear > > to be different[2]. > > > > Would break the assumptions made in ~30% of the releases using at least 3 > > version levels, or 15% of all releases. Furthermore A.B == A.B.0 being > > equivalent is a matter of opinion with no clear answer. I would be inclined > > to say that not breaking it for the 15% of all releases is a greater net > > benefit here then anyones notion of "right" unless there is a clear benefit. > > > > For what it's worth, the implementation of PEP386 treats them as equal as > > well, > > choosing to pad the shorter one out to whatever the requisite number of 0's > > is required to make the number of components equal. > > > > On a tangential note PyPI should probably not be allowing you to upload both > > a A.B and an A.B.0, or at the very least if we want PyPI to continue > > allowing > > it then we need to be explicit about how that should be handled in either > > scheme. > > > > > There is a similar issue with leading zeroes. For example, I was able > to upload to PyPI versions both of the form A.B.2 and A.B.02. The PEP > should probably be explicit and state that any N must be the unique > integer representation, and state how that case should be handled if > violated (with respect to equality, etc). > > Is it easy to check if any releases on PyPI have versions with leading zeroes? > > --Chris I can check it pretty easily since I have a copy of all the PyPI releases in postgresql locally. Will look shortly and see.
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