Paul Bryan: > Seems like this is something that should make its way into stdlib?
In the last 10 years, the trend is more to remove anything related to packaging *outside* the stdlib :-) Since it's evolving way faster than Python releases and the stdlib cannot be updated once installed, I don't think that it's a good idea. On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:22 AM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > Tangentially, until now projects could use distutils's LooseVersion if > they wanted to compare version numbers reliably. With distutils being > deprecated, they'll have to either depending on packaging (which is a > large dependency just for comparison version numbers) or vendor > packaging's Version class (which is doable but still some bothersome > additional work). If packaging is too big and if packaging maintainters like the idea, maybe packaging.version could be moved into a dedicated package? I didn't look if it makes sense from a technical point of view. $ wc -l packaging/version.py packaging/_structures.py 556 packaging/version.py 86 packaging/_structures.py 642 total version.py uses _structures.py (InfinityType, NegativeInfinityType). Victor -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GT6NZDIKA222ADKKSJN7W4WZROMAIRDF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/