On Dec 10, 2009, at 3:44 AM, Malthe Borch wrote: > On 12/8/09 6:16 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> I believe that the current situation is as close to consensus as we >> will get on distutils-sig, and in the interests of avoiding months of >> further discussion which won't take things any further, I propose to >> allow final comments from python-dev and then look for a final >> decision. > > Great work, Tarek. I think you've managed to establish a good body of > knowledge on this and the proposal seems sound. > > That said, I think the terms ``LooseVersion`` and ``StrictVersion`` are less > than optimal. Really, what's meant is ``LexicalVersion`` and > ``ChronologicalVersion`` (or ``NumberedVersion``). It's not about strictness > or looseness.
I agree about the impreciseness of these terms. I'm not sure what the correct terminology is... > Also, the word "rational" is not familiar to me in the context of versions; > is this term known outside of this proposal? I couldn't find any reference to > it. No, it's a made-up use. I'm not sure if there's some "standard" terminology for referring to versioning schemes... S _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
