-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Terry Reedy wrote: > On 12/27/2009 7:48 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek<at> gmail.com> writes: >>> This was ambiguous because it was unclear, as MvL stated, if "2.5" >>> was just "2.5.0" or included >>> versions like "2.5.1" or "2.5.2". >> How about having "2.5" match all 2.5.x versions, and "2.5.0" match only 2.5 >> itself? (ditto for "2.5.N" matching only 2.5.N for N>= 1) > > If the first x.y release were called x.y.0, (does not sys.version > include 0?) then x.y would unambiguously mean the series.
This syntax is not just for the 'Requires-Python:' field, but also for the 'Requires-Dist:' and 'Obsoletes-Dist:' fields: not all third-party packages call the first release of a given series .0. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAks4PzUACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ551gCgyVNvpJayTWGiCNbg4NKw4p/y uG8An1u90cHfKVaUqIAkUlZSI92g6PxL =7h2c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
