Hi all,

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 22:34 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I just pushed Donald's final round of edits in response to the
> feedback on the last PEP 440 thread, and as such I'm happy to announce
> that I am accepting PEP 440 as the recommended approach to identifying
> versions and specifying dependencies when distributing Python
> software.
> 
> The PEP is available in the usual place at
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/

> It's been a long road to get to an implementation independent
> versioning standard that has a feasible migration path from the
> current pkg_resources defined de facto standard, and I'd like to thank
> a few folks:
> 
> * Donald Stufft for his extensive work on PEP 440 itself, especially
> the proof of concept integration into pip
> * Vinay Sajip for his efforts in validating earlier versions of the PEP
> * Tarek Ziadé for starting us down the road to an implementation
> independent versioning standard with the initial creation of PEP 386
> back in June 2009, more than five years ago!

Only got to look at PEP440 now and like it.
Thanks to all who helped to sort this out!

best,
holger


> 
> Regards,
> Nick.
> 
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