Issue 550364: Version number handling (original) (raw)

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Created on 2002-04-29 20:28 by akuchling, last changed 2022-04-10 16:05 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg10617 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2002-04-29 20:28
A while ago, Tim Peters mentioned in a check-in message: "Change the version string from "2.2+" to "2.3a0". distutils peels off the first 3 characters of this string in several places, so for as long as they remain "2.2" it confuses the heck out of attempts to build 2.3 stuff using distutils." It's true; distutils does sys.version[:3] in a few places. The attached patch factors this out so it'll be easier to change. (There's also a Python development issue here, namely when the version number gets bumped in the CVS tree.)
msg10618 - (view)	Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *	Date: 2002-05-14 10:51
Logged In: YES user_id=80475 Nice factoring. Would it be more bulletproof to use sys.version_info instead of sys.version[:3]? Perhaps, wrap it in try/except to catch versions before Py2.0.
msg10619 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2002-05-15 20:54
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 Maybe. But I don't know if I still care about 1.5.2. If I don't, then the code can just always use sys.version_info.
msg10620 - (view)	Author: Jeremy Hylton (jhylton)	Date: 2002-07-25 16:12
Logged In: YES user_id=31392 Do we still care about this patch?
msg10621 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2002-09-05 13:53
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 Probably we can just use sys.version_info, since we don't care about 1.5.2 any more.
msg10622 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2002-11-14 01:45
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 Checked in, since MAL argued convincingly for maintaining 1.5.2 support.