[Zope3-dev] Re: egg version numbers and zope releases

[Jim Fulton]

On May 30, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Bernd Dorn wrote:

>
> On 30.05.2007, at 19:23, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
>> It's actually worse than that.  <2.0 would admit 2.0a1. :)  You'd  
>> probably need something like < 1.99.
>>
>> Even if developers remembered, it would be icky to have to spell  
>> out  something like >=3.4 <=3.99 on everwhere.
>>
>> Using foo2 essentially embeds the major version in the package  
>> name, which doesn't seem so bad to me.
>>
>> Maybe there is some kind of dependency syntax that reads well that  
>> means "I want this major version".  Can you think of a syntax that  
>> is actually nicer than foo2?
>
> maybe it's a good idea to use the same pattern as other  
> distribution/packaging systems.
>
> so foo2 or even foo21 is ok if you compare it to the name  
> 'python24' in macports or ubuntu
>
> so that means that any incompatible version results in a new  
> package name, so one could be shure to have a compatible version of  
> deps e.g. using things like zope.interface.20 without any version  
> restrictions.

I'm not sure what you are suggesting with the zope.interface.20  
example.  Are you suggesting that this is the twentieth backward- 
incompatible version of zope.interface?  Or that this combines a  
major and minor version number?

Jim

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