How to deal with major versions? (was Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: egg version numbers and zope releases)

[Jim Fulton]

On May 30, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Christian Theune wrote:
...
>>
>> Could you elaborate on this?
>
> Aside the general version numbering, for me as a user gentoo provides
> flags on packages marking them stable. I never get unstable/testing
> packages that I don't want.
>
> In addition, I can "mask" packages away giving version patterns like:
>
>> 3.4
>
> this would match all packages that are past 3.5.* but not 3.4.*.
> I find that their patterns do what I want all the time, although I  
> don't
> know the specifics as well as Jodok.

Um, this doesn't make sense. typo?

> On a different note, couldn't the dependency "<=3.4.999" also be  
> spelled
> as "<3.5dev"?

Maaaaybe.

> Can there be a smaller version number than "3.5dev" in the
> 3.5 series?

I don't know.  Setuptools' version system is sometimes sooo intuitive  
I can't guess.  I'd feel safer using <3.4.999.

Jim

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