[Distutils] specifying dependencies to latest major/minor

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:14 PM 12/3/2010 +0100, Alan Franzoni wrote:
>Hello,
>I've got some issues with dependency specification; this seems to
>apply both to setuptools and distribute.
>
>Let's suppose I want to have a dependency on a certain library
>major.minor , because I want to depend on a certain API - which is
>supposed to be stable for that lib unless at least the minor changes -
>but I want to pick in any bugfix release they might end up with.
>
>I'd like to do something like "pick up the latest 1.1 release of mylib"
>
>The only way to do it seems to be this:
>
>install_requires = [ "mylib>=1.1, <1.1.999" ]
>
>if I use just == 1.1 , it picks 1.1.0 . If I use >= 1.1 and <1.2.0, it
>will pick beta releases for 1.2 as well.

Use ">=1.1,<1.2dev".