On 12/27/2009 4:15 PM, david.lyon@preisshare.net wrote:
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Nick Coghlan<ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Martin v. Löwis wrote: FYI we have introduced a range operator, so one may define a range of versions. This is useful for instance to write:
Requires-Python: ~=2.5
Which means: requires any version of Python 2.5.x. This operator is the default operator, meaning that you can also write:
Requires-Python: 2.5 I don't like the ~ at all sorry. The ~ operator is thoroughly confusing.
No application developer will quickly figure out what a tilde means. Maybe it means 'roughly', but it requires too much thought and is ambiguous. 2.5 is not roughly 2.5.2. It is the same exactly.
Tarek, I am a bit confused at the current proposal combined with the newly introduced range operator. Would "Requires-Python: <=2.5" include 2.5.4 or not? Also, "Requires-Python: 3" would include all 3.X versions, correct? -srid