On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 2:40 AM Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 :-) Well, maybe all of us don't think that's a good idea ;-) But anyway, I would say removing anything *related* to packaging outside the stdlib is a bad idea -- requiring an external tool to build a package is OK, but requireing an external use packages, not so much. Presumably that's why importlib.metadata exists in the stdlib. Version is arguably useful from the package user side. As I believe Victor mentioned, there are two uses for version information: display to the user -- for which version strings are fine, or programmatic comparison -- for which something like the Version object is very helpful. Do we only need to use version information programmatically when we are creating (or installing) packages? I don't think so -- I know I have code that (poorly) does version checking programmatically. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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