[Python-Dev] Fwd: Accepting PEP 440: Version Identification and Dependency Specification (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 09:32:51 CEST 2014


Antoine pointed out that it would still be a good idea to forward packaging PEP acceptance announcements to python-dev, even when the actual acceptance happens on distutils-sig.

That makes sense to me, so here's last week's notice of the acceptance of PEP 440, the implementation independent versioning standard derived from pkg_resources, PEP 386, and ideas from both Linux distributions and other open source language communities.

Regards, Nick.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> Date: 22 August 2014 22:34 Subject: Accepting PEP 440: Version Identification and Dependency Specification To: DistUtils mailing list <distutils-sig at python.org>

I just pushed Donald's final round of edits in response to the feedback on the last PEP 440 thread, and as such I'm happy to announce that I am accepting PEP 440 as the recommended approach to identifying versions and specifying dependencies when distributing Python software.

The PEP is available in the usual place at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/

It's been a long road to get to an implementation independent versioning standard that has a feasible migration path from the current pkg_resources defined de facto standard, and I'd like to thank a few folks:

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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