Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 04:52 PM 6/21/2006 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > ...
> I was going to say, of course, and give you a link, but I'm surprised to > discover there's nothing I can find. Which is weird because I *know* I > wrote something. I thought you did too. > However I suspect it was originally on the PythonEggs > wiki page, and it didn't get transferred to the PkgResources or > setuptools pages before being deleted. > > Ah, yes, that's in fact the case. Here's the missing paragraph, grabbed > from the wiki history: > > """Requirement strings basically consist of a distribution name, an > optional list of "options" (more on this in a moment), and a > comma-separated list of zero or more version conditions. Version > conditions basically specify ranges of valid versions, using comparison > operators. The version conditions you supply are sorted into ascending > version order, and then scanned left to right until the package's > version falls between a pair of > or >= and < or <= conditions, or > exactly matches a == or != condition.""" OK, this is something. I'm sure what "ascending version order" is. In ascending version order, what is the ordering of: <1.2, >1.2, ==1.2, <=1.2, >=1.2, and !=1.2 ? -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
