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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Dec 29 00:07:32 CET 2009

On 28/12/2009 22:57, David Lyon wrote:

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:42:20 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis"<martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

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. Absolutely. > From Len and my interactions, I will wrap up and make one addition to the set. I'm adding one last proposition. > Requires-Python: 3 Requires a particular python version. > Requires-Python: 2.5:2.7 Specifies a range of python versions. So this would work for Python 2.7 but not 2.7.1? Or does 2.7 implicitly mean a range of all Python 2.7 versions?

If not how do we specify up to the last version of 2.6 (which may not yet be released) but not 2.7?

 2.5:2.6.9 ?

Michael

> Requires-Python: 2.4+

Specifies anything above a particular python version. (No need to ask me about a less than operator. I think a packager would feel more comfortable with using the range operator than a 'less-than' operator. There just comes a point where people don't bother with old interpreter versions) That wraps it up for the vocal faction... Happy new year David

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