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

[Marcus Smith]

Thinking of ">1.7" as "greater than the 1.7 series" sort of helps me as
> well...
>
>

the problem with thinking of it this way is that you naturally want to
extend the concept to >=, but it doesn't work.
If the concept were consistent,  1.7.dev1 would satisfy  >=1.7, but it
doesn't.
for >=, the concept seems to be zero-padding.
for >, the concept is the series wildcard idea.

this inconsistency concerns me, and makes it hard to edit the PEP to be
more understandable like I would have wanted.
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