On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:26:37PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tres Seaver<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Tarek Ziadé wrote: > >>> 2- let's drop PEP 386 completely > >> - -1. I would rather exclude some use cases (post releases), than drop > >> standardization altogether. > > > > Would you be OK to say in PEP 345 that a suggested tool to compare > > versions could be > > verlib (released as a third-party software), but that any system could > > also be used to compare versions ? > > The purpose of defining the 'Requires-Dist' field in PEP 345 is to allow > for a standardized way of spelling dependences. If we don't standardize > on the versioning, then we won't have gained any ground: we might as > well punt and keep using setuptools, and *forbid* putting versions into > 'Requires-Dist' at all.
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