<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Ben Finney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bignose%2Bhates-spam@benfinney.id.au">bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">"Martin v. Löwis" <<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de">martin@v.loewis.de</a>> writes:<br>
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> I don't mind the setuptools implementation being used as a basis<br>
> (assuming it gets contributed), but *independently* I think a<br>
> specfication is needed what version strings it actually understands.<br>
> Such specification must precede the actual implementation (in<br>
> distutils).<br>
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</div>Yes, please. The comparison of version strings needs to be easily done<br>
by non-Python programs (e.g. tools for packaging Python<br>
distributions), so a specification that can be implemented in other<br>
languages or environments is a must.</blockquote><br>There's a specification in <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/ApplicationInfrastructure">http://wiki.python.org/moin/ApplicationInfrastructure</a> , see "Version API" below (at least, it's a start).<br>
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