It also provides consistency with date-based versions. And versions aren't decimals so thinking of them like that is not exactly useful. On Dec 23, 2014 11:43 AM, "Paul Moore" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22 December 2014 at 20:44, Marcus Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > it would fail. you'd need ">1.7.0" > > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM, James Bennett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> So, if PyPI has foo-1.7 and foo-1.7.1, does ">1.7" just fail to find > >> anything installable? > > I think the thing I'd missed, which makes this behaviour more > understandable (for me) is that you wouldn't usually get that in > reality. Projects tend to use a fixed number of digits in the version > number, so it'd likely be 1.7.0 and 1.7.1, and you'd be writing > >1.7.0. > > Thinking of ">1.7" as "greater than the 1.7 series" sort of helps me as > well... > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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