> On 23 Dec 2014, at 18:43, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 22 December 2014 at 20:44, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> it would fail. you'd need ">1.7.0" >> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM, James Bennett <ubernost...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> So, if PyPI has foo-1.7 and foo-1.7.1, does ">1.7" just fail to find >>> anything installable? > > I think the thing I'd missed, which makes this behaviour more > understandable (for me) is that you wouldn't usually get that in > reality. Projects tend to use a fixed number of digits in the version > number, so it'd likely be 1.7.0 and 1.7.1, and you'd be writing >> 1.7.0.
For what it’s worth I usually skip a trailing .0 in my versions since it does not add any extra information. So my packages tend to do 1.6 1.6.1 1.6.2 1.7 1.7.1 etc. etc. Wichert. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
