On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 11:03 AM Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 14:39, Soni L. <fakedme+py@gmail.com> wrote:
Figuring out versioning is hard. PyPI should encourage semver by including PEP 440 version strings that you can copy and paste into install_requires.
I don't understand what you mean by **PyPI** including version strings. PyPI just publishes the data the module contains. Do you mean the packaging documentation, or PyPA, or something?
I think they mean that instead of e.g. https://pypi.org/project/six/ just showing `pip install six`, it should also show example install_requires values. E.g. `install_requires: ['six~=1.14.0']`. Or maybe a dropdown where you select the compatibility you want and and it formats the version string. This does seem like a good way to encourage people to specify or at least think about versioned dependencies, although I wonder how many people look at pypi when specifying their dependencies in `install_requires`?