On 4/14/2021 12:38 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
Anyway, the question now for me is whether this is worth any more of
my time.
So:
- Is there someone willing to sponsor?
- Do folks generally think there's a chance of it being accepted
without a huge debate and expansion of scope.
I think that before these can be answered, you need to decide why this
needs to be standardized. I don't see any reason to standardize it
unless there's some programmatic use for these version strings. If it's
just the user poking around on the REPL, then I think the status quo is
fine. I've read the PEP, and the User Stories section talks about user
convenience, not programmatic access.
I also think the distribution version is more useful than any
__version__ information in each module/package. I realize this
information might not be available, depending on how the code was
installed (say, just by copying some files into the right place).
Eric
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