Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> writes: > 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?
I'm operating from the principle that there should not be a special syntax that only applies to dependency on the version of Python. The same syntax used for specifying any dependency on any package should also be sufficient for specifying a dependency on Python itself. That being so, the cost in complexity of having a special dependency syntax just for the version of Python should weigh strongly against introducing one. -- \ “First things first, but not necessarily in that order.” —The | `\ Doctor, _Doctor Who_ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
