On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:58 PM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> A version specifier is something like “>=10”. It doesn’t make any sense to > say “I depend explicitly on the version of foo that exists at this URL, and > also that URL has to be >= 10”. You’re already telling us that you depend > on that URL, the version specifier is completely nonsensical. But lifting > the *version* (as opposed to a version specifier) that is expected to be at > that URL into the dependency declaration is fine, it’s just baking more > information into the specifier to make it easier to handle. > I agree that such specifier would make little sense but why add a new syntax "foo-1 @ url" when "foo==1 @ url" (where ==1 is a version specifier as defined in PEP 508) would perfectly fit the bill ?
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