> On 29 Jan 2019, at 23:19, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 29, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Xavier Fernandez <xav.fernan...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I agree that such specifier would make little sense but why add a new syntax 
>> "foo-1 @ url" when "foo==1 @ url" (where ==1 is a version specifier as 
>> defined in PEP 508) would perfectly fit the bill ?
> 
> 
> Well foo-1 wouldn’t work great because you can’t disambiguate between (“foo”, 
> “1”) and (“foo-1”, None). But the reason for using a different syntax would 
> be so people didn’t confuse the concept with the idea of version specifiers, 
> since >=1.0 doesn’t make sense, if we allow ==10, then people will assume 
> they can add >=10.0 and willet confused when it doesn’t work. A different 
> syntax side steps that issue.

A >=10.0 specifier could still work, I think. Resolvers are implemented to 
calculate the union of specifiers, so any specifiers would do. Of course it 
does not make perfect sense, but I guess it could be interpreted as “you can 
find the package here, and I promise it satisfies the given specifiers.

TP


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