[Distutils] PEP 426, round 733 ;)

[Donald Stufft]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> The one *actual* change I will be making to the version scheme in the
> next draft is to allow Fedora/Firefox/Chrome style version numbering
> where there are only major releases, with no minor marker. Since the
> version scheme also constrains what is permitted inside version
> specifiers, this will also serve to permit things like
> "Requires-Python: 2" as a shorthand for "Requires-Python: >= 2.0, < 3"
> (and similar in Requires-Dist and Setup-Requires-Dist for other
> projects where major releases may contain backwards incompatible
> changes, and thus cross-version compatibility should be explicitly
> indicated with more permissive specifiers like ">=2.6, >=3.2, <4")
> 
Fedora/Firefox really don't have minor version numbers at all? Chrome
does have minor (actually way more than that http://d.stufft.io/image/3g0b07221P3l).

I'm not against the change in particular though. The reference impl in distutils2
protected against really high version numbers, I'm not sure what the logic behind
that was except for protecting against "dates" as a version number. Might be there
was a particular case they were making sure was rational. Only mentioning here
because major only project numbers can get big which reminded me!

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