[Distutils] setup.cfg new format proposal

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 19:02:53 CEST 2009


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Floris Bruynooghe
<floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:14:58PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> [...]
>> That can be dropped since we have '==' and it's all strings.
>
> '2.6' < '2.10'?
>
> Although not close you must be wary of this.  Bring on PEP 386 ;-)

Right. Maybe we can drop < >, >= and >=, completely.

In real world use cases, we can use "or" to make a section work for
2.6, 3.1, etc.. for python versions.

I can't think of a use case where "in" and "==" is not enough.


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