[Distutils] PEP 345 update + RFC on "Requires-External" and "Requires-Python"

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:04 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:55:44AM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>> One detail to add:
>>>
>>> python_full_version = sys.version.split()[0]
>>>
>>> This is important, since a package may well only support Python
>>> 2.5 starting with patch level release 2.5.2 and python_version
>>> only includes the major.minor version information.
>>
>> I still like hex(sys.hexversion) for this.  IIRC this is what the docs
>> recommend to use inside python code too for checking versions.
>
> Fine with me, but that format doesn't work too well with the
> (new) standard for distutils version numbers which is supposed
> to be used for these version comparisons.

+1

Using sys.hexversion would bypass the PEP 386-compatible standard
we want to provide.

(I am adding python_full_version in the PEP btw)

Tarek