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

[Guido van Rossum]

The funny thing is that the version parsing that's currently in distutils
came out a similar discussion probably 15 or so years ago. There's really
not much news in semver.org except that it has its own website.


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Jörn Hees <dev at joernhees.de> wrote:

> 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.
>
> j
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