> Instead of trying to parse some version string, distutils should > require defining the version as tuple with well-defined entries - > much like what we have in sys.version_info for Python. > > The developer can then still use whatever string format s/he wants. > > The version compare function would then work on this version tuple > and probably be called cmp() (at least in Python 2.x ;-). >
Except there need to be functions for parsing the tuple from a string and preferably a canonical string representation to ease that parsing. Hence the Version class in "Version Handling" referred to above.
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