[Distutils] PEP440: foo-X.Y.Z does not satisfy "foo>X.Y"?

[Ian Cordasco]

It also provides consistency with date-based versions. And versions aren't
decimals so thinking of them like that is not exactly useful.
On Dec 23, 2014 11:43 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 December 2014 at 20:44, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> > it would fail.  you'd need  ">1.7.0"
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM, James Bennett <ubernostrum at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> So, if PyPI has foo-1.7 and foo-1.7.1, does ">1.7" just fail to find
> >> anything installable?
>
> I think the thing I'd missed, which makes this behaviour more
> understandable (for me) is that you wouldn't usually get that in
> reality. Projects tend to use a fixed number of digits in the version
> number, so it'd likely be 1.7.0 and 1.7.1, and you'd be writing
> >1.7.0.
>
> Thinking of ">1.7" as "greater than the 1.7 series" sort of helps me as
> well...
>
> Paul
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