>> 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.
No, it means a library requires either python 2.5 *OR* python 2.6 to be installed properly. If not, the implication is that the user will be prompted to install anyway. David _______________________________________________ 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
