[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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>> Requires-Dist: zope.interface (3.1.0)   ==> only 3.1.0
>
> For completeness, isn't this really "any versino which starts with
> 3.1.0, not including post- or pre- releases"?  That particular pacakge
> doesn't use more than a third version component, but there are packages
> in the wild which use four.

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>> Requires-Python: 2.6.2                         ==> only Python 2.6.2
>
> Here, the issue is only theoretical:  Python dosn't issue "fourth dot"
> releases.

Both points are right. I'll remove from the PEP the range operator and provide
a definition for 2.5 vs 2.5.x vs 2.5.0, as well as all these examples,
corrected.