Tarek Ziadé
That makes me think that a nice add-on to the lib and the PEP would be to provide APIs to translate a Python PEP 386 version to a Debian/Ubuntu or RPM ones - and any major packaging system out there. (whatever scheme we pick)
I'd like to register, once again, the point that this would not *be* a problem if PEP 386 described a version comparison scheme that simply works without special keywords. Have each segment compared alphanumerically, and it will not *need* translation to work with other packaging systems. Special keywords are not, I maintain, special enough to break the normal version-comparison semantics. -- \ “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too | `\ much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” | _o__) —Thomas Jefferson | Ben Finney