[Python-ideas] Support 1.x notation in version specifiers

[Andrew Barnert]

On May 2, 2015, at 00:48, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> pip team said they won't support setting limit for major version
> of package being installed in the way below until it is supported
> by PEP 440.

I think that's misrepresenting them. They explained why it isn't needed, and threw in an "anyway, it's not up to us"; they didn't say "sounds like a good idea, but you have to fix the PEP first".

Also, if you can't use pip 6.0 or later to take advantage of the already-working syntax that they recommended you use, how would you be able to use your new syntax even if it did get added?

>     pip install patch==1.x
> 
> The current way ==1.* conflicts with system shell expansion
> and the other way is not known / not intuitive.
> 
> https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2737#issuecomment-97621684
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> anatoly t.
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