Mart Sõmermaa wrote:
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.
Right. For example, say you need to specify in a config file that your
package requires version 1.3.4 of some other tool. I think the only
rational way to do this is in a string, and be able to parse the version
number (possibly into a tuple) and compare it with other version
numbers. I don't think you want to directly specify the tuple in such a
case.
Eric.
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