[Distutils] RFC PEP 386 : Version comparisons

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:26:37PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tres Seaver<tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> >> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> >>> 2- let's drop PEP 386 completely
> >> - -1.  I would rather exclude some use cases (post releases), than drop
> >> standardization altogether.
> > 
> > Would you be OK to say in PEP 345 that a suggested tool to compare
> > versions could be
> > verlib (released as a third-party software), but that any system could
> > also be used to compare versions ?
> 
> The purpose of defining the 'Requires-Dist' field in PEP 345 is to allow
> for a standardized way of spelling dependences.  If we don't standardize
> on the versioning, then we won't have gained any ground:  we might as
> well punt and keep using setuptools, and *forbid* putting versions into
> 'Requires-Dist' at all.

+1