> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Martin v. Löwis wrote: > FYI we have introduced a range operator, so one may define a range of > versions. > This is useful for instance to write: > > Requires-Python: ~=2.5 > > Which means: requires any version of Python 2.5.x. This operator is > the default operator, > meaning that you can also write: > > Requires-Python: 2.5
I don't like the ~ at all sorry. The ~ operator is thoroughly confusing. No application developer will quickly figure out what a tilde means. Maybe it means 'roughly', but it requires too much thought and is ambiguous. 2.5 is not roughly 2.5.2. It is the same exactly. Before we had : Requires-Python: 2.5, 2.6 That made much more sense. It was simple and unambiguous, and is relevant to typical packaging scenarios. I hope we can go back to the original proposal. :-) David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
