> No application developer will quickly figure out what a tilde means. Maybe > it means 'roughly', but it requires too much thought and is ambiguous. 2.5 > is not roughly 2.5.2. It is the same exactly. > > Before we had : Requires-Python: 2.5, 2.6 > > That made much more sense. It was simple and unambiguous, and is relevant > to typical packaging scenarios.
Unfortunately, it is fairly ambiguous, and makes no sense. It means "requires Python 2.5 *AND* requires Python 2.6", which is a requirement that no single version can meet. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
