[Distutils] Common version-comparison semantics for peace love and harmony
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sat Nov 28 02:26:58 CET 2009
"P.J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:
> At 10:32 AM 11/28/2009 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Moreover, AIUI there is no injunction that all projects must follow
> > exactly the semantics of PEP 386, right? So why not have a *simple*
> > standard (all version string components compared alphanumerically)
> > in PEP 386, that is known to work unmodified with existing package
> > systems, without Python-specific translation layers for version
> > comparison?
>
> For the simple reason that it involves asking one group of people to
> change how they work -- with no immediate benefit -- so that another
> group can avoid having to change how they work.
My understanding of PEP 386 is that it *isn't* about asking Python
developers to change how they work. Is that not right?
> Why should developers change, and packagers not?
Packagers *do* change how they work; Piotr has been explaining at length
how packagers put in efforts to meet version-comparison semantics half
way. I'm asking that the standardisation effort at least not make this
effort more difficult that it needs to be.
Moreover, what is a standard for if not for encouraging people to follow
it for the benefit of many?
> It's simply not an equitable request, which is why the proposal is
> unrealistic.
I think you're reading a proposal that I didn't write.
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