[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> No application developer will quickly figure out what a tilde means. Maybe
> it means 'roughly', but it requires too much thought and is ambiguous. 2.5
> is not roughly 2.5.2. It is the same exactly.
> 
> Before we had : Requires-Python: 2.5, 2.6
> 
> That made much more sense. It was simple and unambiguous, and is relevant
> to typical packaging scenarios.

Unfortunately, it is fairly ambiguous, and makes no sense. It means
"requires Python 2.5 *AND* requires Python 2.6", which is a requirement
that no single version can meet.

Regards,
Martin