[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 386 for addition (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 14:19:26 CET 2009

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Malthe Borch <mborch at gmail.com> wrote: [..]

Great work, Tarek. I think you've managed to establish a good body of knowledge on this and the proposal seems sound.

Thanks :)

That said, I think the terms LooseVersion and StrictVersion are less than optimal. Really, what's meant is LexicalVersion and ChronologicalVersion (or NumberedVersion). It's not about strictness or looseness.

I've added a note explaining that these exists since years in Distutils, for clarity.

Also, the word "rational" is not familiar to me in the context of versions; is this term known outside of this proposal? I couldn't find any reference to it.

Do you have a better suggestion ? I was thinking about StandardVersion but "Standard" doesn't really express what we want to achieve here I think,

Regards, Tarek

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