On 03-03-13 17:07, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>I consider it good form for a setup.py to declare as loose
>dependencies as possible (no version qualifier or a >= version
>qualifier) and for an application to provide a requires.txt or a
>buildout that has stricter requirements.
Interesting!
I feel l
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 01:06 -0800, Glyph wrote:
>
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 7:39 AM, Mark McLoughlin
> wrote:
>
> > I always felt that the Python community tended more towards the
> > former
> > approach, but there always exceptions to the rule - to unfairly pick
> > one
> > one project, sqlalchemy
Hey
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 10:46 -0500, Daniel Holth wrote:
> Briefly in PEP 426 we are likely to copy the Ruby behavior as the
> default (without using the ~> operator itself) which is to depend on
> "the remainder of a particular release series". In Ruby gems ~> 4.2.3
> means >= 4.2.3, < 4.3.0 a
Hey,
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 15:39 +, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
...
> However, OpenStack is starting to get burned more often and some are
> advocating taking the second approach to managing our dependencies:
>
>
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-February/thread.html#601
Nice work on getting this published Vinay! Hopefully support for an
accepted PEP 426 can become a highlight of 0.2.0 :)
Cheers,
Nick.
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