[Distutils] Setuptools feature request: simplified version specification

[Christian Theune]

Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 14:09 -0400 schrieb Jim Fulton:
> We (me and a bunch of my Zope friends) find that we'll often want  
> version specifications of the form:
> 
>    project_name >=Vdev, <V+1dev  (e.g.  "foo >=1dev, <2dev")
> 
> We think this is so common that we'd like a short-hand way of  
> spelling it.
>
> [...]
>
> Thoughts?

I've been using eggs for a while now and being able to specify a release
series would be very helpful to me.  I'm one of his Zope friends and I'm
fond of the syntax he proposes.

Christian