On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:27 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think the changes in version management in setuptools 8 are a great >> step forward, >> but I think the transition is going to hurt a lot. >> >> For buildout, I'm thinking of of releasing 2.3.1 that reverts the >> changes in 2.3 and >> adds a requirement for setuptools <8 to give more time to respond to >> these changes. > > Is there something I’m not aware that is broken currently? I thought the > transition was going pretty smoothly overall considering that a core piece > of code inside of setuptools was touched.
The problem is that version numbers and requirements aren't interpreted the same way. I think that's going to take some time to sort out. In the mean time, I'd like to try to stop the pain. I think you've been very responsive and that's much appreciated. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
