On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Nick Coghlan
* for those cases (like date-based versions) where excluding releases with an additional numeric suffix is the right thing to do, an explicit prefix exclusion will still be possible, and will have the advantage of failing noisily on older versions of pip and easy_install, rather than silently installing an unexpected version (which is what will happen for anyone that starts relying on the current explicit exclusion in PEP 440). It's also possible to replace the exclusive bound with an inclusive bound that has the last release segment component incremented.
Just to confirm, in each of the below is it true that the two
comparisons are exactly equivalent (taking into account pre-release
and post-release rules, etc)?
1) >V.N.* and >=V.N+1
2) <=V.N.* and