Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 17 August 2014 02:11, Donald Stufft wrote: > It’s not a preferred separator, it’s use is mostly because of various > normalization schemes, particularly Wheel, which will convert a ``-`` to a > `` _`` in the version. Right now pip considers them equal because it was > causing some breakage with

Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 17 August 2014 02:11, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Jason R. Coombs wrote: > > Thanks Donald for the extensive work on this. It all looks generally good. > > One thing that stuck out as slightly surprising – the use of ‘_’ as a > separator. I imagine most people consid

Re: [Distutils] Round 6 - PEP 440 - Version Identification and Dependency Specification Version

2014-08-16 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Jason R. Coombs wrote: > > Thanks Donald for the extensive work on this. It all looks generally good. > > One thing that stuck out as slightly surprising – the use of ‘_’ as a > separator. I imagine most people consider the underscore to be yet another > alpha