[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Dec 28 10:42:20 CET 2009

And IMO the choice of "=" or "=" for the range match should be avoided, since that looks like the regexp search operator in Perl, and there "~= 3" would match "3", "3.0.4", and "2.3.5". The next obvious interpretation is "fuzzy match", but that doesn't have an obvious, more specific meaning. The usual comparson operators do have pretty obvious interpretations, and are not hard to use.

On distutils-sig, a vocal fraction seems to think otherwise. From my short interaction there, I now think that comparison operators are indeed hard to use, and that the concept of a half-open interval, and how you can use relational operators involving the endpoints to denote it, is (apparently) quite advanced. More specifically, people fail to notice that saying "X.Y or X.Y+1" still specifies an interval. Being confronted with ">=X.Y, <X.Y+2", they quickly agree that it's equivalent.

Regards, Martin

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