On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 12/27/2009 7:48 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>> Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek<at> gmail.com> writes: >>>> This was ambiguous because it was unclear, as MvL stated, if "2.5" >>>> was just "2.5.0" or included >>>> versions like "2.5.1" or "2.5.2". >>> How about having "2.5" match all 2.5.x versions, and "2.5.0" match only 2.5 >>> itself? (ditto for "2.5.N" matching only 2.5.N for N>= 1) >> >> If the first x.y release were called x.y.0, (does not sys.version >> include 0?) then x.y would unambiguously mean the series. > > This syntax is not just for the 'Requires-Python:' field, but also for > the 'Requires-Dist:' and 'Obsoletes-Dist:' fields: not all third-party > packages call the first release of a given series .0.
They do start with "2.5" *or* "2.5.0" for their first release of the 2.5 series. And both are equal for PEP 386. IOW "2.5 == 2.5.0", always. So it doesn't really matter if some projects don't use the terminal 0 here. Antoine's proposal still works. 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