<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 2, 2015, at 00:48, anatoly techtonik <<a href="mailto:techtonik@gmail.com">techtonik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">pip team said they won't support setting limit for major version<div>of package being installed in the way below until it is supported</div><div>by PEP 440.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that's misrepresenting them. They explained why it isn't needed, and threw in an "anyway, it's not up to us"; they didn't say "sounds like a good idea, but you have to fix the PEP first".</div><div><br></div><div>Also, if you can't use pip 6.0 or later to take advantage of the already-working syntax that they recommended you use, how would you be able to use your new syntax even if it did get added?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div> pip install patch==1.x</div><div><br></div><div>The current way ==1.* conflicts with system shell expansion</div><div>and the other way is not known / not intuitive.</div><div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2737#issuecomment-97621684">https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2737#issuecomment-97621684</a><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">anatoly t.</div>
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