[Distutils] Accepting PEP 440: Version Identification and Dependency Specification

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 15:05:34 CEST 2014


On 2 September 2014 16:43, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> Minor nit: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#final-releases
> still uses the older
>
>   N[.N]+
>
> spelling, which perhaps should be changed to
>
>   N(.N)*
>
> to be consistent with
> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#public-version-identifiers
> and to make it more apparent at a glance that one number with no dots is
> also a valid version identifier.

Indeed, I missed that reference when we made the change to allow
Firefox/Chrome style version numbers. Fixed in
http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/ff38b758e584

Thanks for pointing it out!

Cheers,
Nick.

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