On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:54, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> This == operator is fairly common in Debian. For example, the apache2 >> package installed on my system specifies > > Oh, absolutely, but that's when you specify interdependencies between > packages. Nobody makes a Python package for generic use and say "you > should only use this with Python 2.5.0 and nothing else". > Specifying > zope.interfaces 1.2.3 for zope.component 1.2.3 makes a lot of sense, > but specifying only Python 2.5.0?
It's quite improbable but it could technically happen. For example, let's say I create a third-party project that provides a specific workaround for a bug that was founded in Python 2.5.0 but fixed in Python 2.5.1. IOW defining how versions work should be a set of explicit rules that shouldn't rely on assumptions made on their usage in some specific projects, but rather provides something that covers all needs. 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
