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

[Jörn Hees]

On 15 Apr 2014, at 03:50, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> So, as I understand what you're saying, PEP 440 *does* support a large
> subset of the semantic versioning actually used on PyPI (63/64 =
> 98.5%).  I find that simple math a pretty compelling reason not to
> make the PEP 440 spec more complicated.

You can think of it that way. I’m more worried because i see it the other way around:
I suspect that up to 64 % of the projects actually follow semver (1 % for sure) and only by chance follow PEP 440 ;).

Encouraging semver in PEP 440 would in my opinion have made versioning of python modules more meaningful and compatible with a widely used “standard” across languages.

Anyhow, i can see that there’s not much support for this, but at least i tried bringing it up.
Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,
Jörn