At 08:22 AM 6/12/2009 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
"P.J. Eby" <[email protected]> writes: > Dev tags are so that while you're doing development, your > locally-installed versions can be distinguished from one another. How is âdistinguished from one anotherâ different from âcompare sequentially previous or subsequent to one anotherâ?
First, more than one version can co-exist in .egg form, and there may be a need to depend on an exact version. Second, as already shown in other examples, there is a need for the installed development version to be compared against a desired development version, and these requirements are expressed by version comparison strings.
What is wrong with using the version comparison semantics without special-cased words for this purpose?
Please explain how you intend to designate "development" versions that compare less than the equivalent non-development versions in your scheme.
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