[Distutils] setuptools dependencies failure and wildcards

[Hanno Schlichting]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Nicholas Bower <nick at petangent.net> wrote:
> 1) Shapely will not work.  The available packages are;

[..] can't help with this question

> 2) How does one say "the latest release of sqlalchemy 0.5.x".
> Unfortunately <0.6 picks up 0.6beta and I can see no way to do
> wildcards in the docs and just say "give me the latest 0.5 series".

You can specify:

<0.6dev

which excludes any development and pre-final versions of the 0.6
series. If that looks strange to you, you could also say:

<0.5.999

assuming it is unlikely the package ever gets a 999 maintenance release.

Hanno