[Python-ideas] module version number support for semver.org

[Jörn Hees]

On 14 Apr 2014, at 19:41, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> So what i’d like to have happen (this part is here) is that PEP440 describes
> the syntax of versions in a way that enables as many possible versions for
> what is already on PyPI and that provides a definitive way for tools to parse,
> and interpret the version strings.

Actually one of my points was that PEP440 currently describes versioning incompatible with http://semver.org and that at the same time many python libs on pypi use semver.

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