On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:03 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> Unfortunately, it is fairly ambiguous, and makes no sense. It means >> "requires Python 2.5 *AND* requires Python 2.6", which is a requirement >> that no single version can meet. >> > Does that mean we should add "or"? > > Requires-Python: 2.5 or 2.6 > > Should we also use "and" instead of ","? > > Requires-Python: >= 2.5 and < 2.6
This was discussed aready in Ditsutils-SIG : *and* is enough to express everything, so for the sake of simplicity, the comma means *and* all the time, as Mentioned in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/#version-specifiers Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ 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
