Simon, I'm not sure your note made it to the list -- bringing it back on. On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 1:15 AM Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev@gmail.com> wrote:

I would be +1 on having a small PEP like this one to give __version__ an official blessing and some well-defined expected behaviour.

I don't have a deep opinion on the specifics of the specification, but I'm guessing they should be thought about again even if the answers end up being the same. Quite a lot has changed in the Python ecosystem in the last 13 years.

Yes indeed. Critically, over on the packaging side, standardization of versioning specs. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython