Message161517
| Author |
barry |
| Recipients |
Natalia, barry, eric.araujo, piotr, tarek |
| Date |
2012年05月24日.15:12:58 |
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-1.0 |
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Yes |
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<20120524111250.095cbb8e@resist.wooz.org> |
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<1337871810.71.0.776433883277.issue14894@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| Content |
On May 24, 2012, at 03:03 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:
>> But if 'a' is invalid, then LooseVersion should refuse to accept it in its
>> constructor, right?
>It’s complicated. The doc does not say much, the docstring however clearly
>states that versions should start with a digit, but a ton of projects use
>invalid-but-not-rejected formats. distutils2 makes a clean break with clear
>rules (PEP 386); I’m not sure it would be acceptable for distutils to
>suddenly reject these versions. It sounds useful but even with that change
>people would not always comply with PEP 386, so better let them use broken
>versions with distutils and force a switch to a fully compliant format with
>d2. Does that make sense?
It does, but in that case, I think the comparison should continue to succeed,
with whatever results it produces in Python 2.7. |
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