On October 14, 2015 at 2:27:40 PM, Donald Stufft (don...@stufft.io) wrote: > On October 14, 2015 at 2:25:31 PM, Nathaniel Smith (n...@pobox.com) wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2015 11:12 AM, "Donald Stufft" wrote: > > > > > [...] > > >> Apparently some packages were making assumptions about the format of the > > numpy.__version__ string, and having .postN in there caused errors when > > they tried to process it. (It would be helpful if there were a little > > permissively licensed standalone implementation of PEP 440 comparisons, > > suitable for the "if pkg.version > ...:" checks that people insist on doing > > -- I couldn't find one in some quick searches.) > > > > > > https://github.com/pypa/packaging > > > > > > It’s what both pip and setuptools use (though we embed it, but it’s fine > > to depend on it too). > > > > That's under Apache 2, so it can't be used by GPLv2 packages, or any > > package that might be used by GPLv2 packages. > > I suspect it’d be trivial to relicense it. There’s a total of 6 contributors > and I think > I know how to get ahold of all of them.
https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/42 ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig