On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Malthe Borch <mbo...@gmail.com> wrote: [..] > Great work, Tarek. I think you've managed to establish a good body of > knowledge on this and the proposal seems sound.
Thanks :) > > 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've added a note explaining that these exists since years in Distutils, for clarity. > 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. Do you have a better suggestion ? I was thinking about StandardVersion but "Standard" doesn't really express what we want to achieve here I think, Regards, Tarek _______________________________________________ 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