[Python-ideas] module version number support for semver.org

[Daniel Holth]

The PEP does currently have a semver section. In short, you can't
really use the -suffix+anothersuffix versions, but you can have x.y.z
versions where the major version number indicates a backwards
incompatible change.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> The funny thing is that the version parsing that's currently in distutils
> came out a similar discussion probably 15 or so years ago. There's really
> not much news in semver.org except that it has its own website.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Jörn Hees <dev at joernhees.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 Apr 2014, at 19:41, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>
>> > So what i’d like to have happen (this part is here) is that PEP440
>> > describes
>> > the syntax of versions in a way that enables as many possible versions
>> > for
>> > what is already on PyPI and that provides a definitive way for tools to
>> > parse,
>> > and interpret the version strings.
>>
>> Actually one of my points was that PEP440 currently describes versioning
>> incompatible with http://semver.org and that at the same time many python
>> libs on pypi use semver.
>>
>> j
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