28 Nov
2009
28 Nov
'09
11:28 a.m.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:00:22PM -0500, P.J. Eby wrote:
This is why I've argued for keeping a scheme in 386 that can mechanically translate most existing versioning schemes found in the wild: it means that most people won't have to do a thing, as tool builders can just use suggest_version().
This is an important point. I tought the aim of PEP 386 was to create a version scheme that can represent every version number developers want to express, not to create one that allows everyones favourite syntax. And it seems most of the discussion has now ventured back into the syntax (flamewars/bikeshedding?) instead of whether everyone can express the versions they need to. Regards Floris