[Distutils] PEP345 - Distutils2 - Cannot pin to exact version

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 9/11/12 9:34 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
>> On 9/11/12 9:25 PM, Erik Bray wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> But you could still release 2.5.1.0.0? I suppose we limit the number
>>>> of version parts these days.
>>>>
>>>> Why don't we update the spec so that (2.0) means (2.0) the range, and
>>>> (==2.0) means 2.0 (exactly).
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>> The PEP is ambiguous on this, but you could get away with reading it
>>> as "When a version is provided (without a conditional operator) it
>>> always includes all versions that start with the same value".
>>> Although it's unwritten in the PEP exactly how the operators are meant
>>> to be interpreted, I would say they should be interpreted strictly.
>>
>>   Yeah that's what we wanted to do back then, I recall now.
>>
>> +1 for the clarification - since it's just rephrasing thing we don't need a
>> new PEP I guess
>>
>> and we can fix the implementations
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tarek
> We do have a new PEP anyway.
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/ Metadata 1.3
We need to fix PEP 386 though