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

[Jim Fulton]

On May 31, 2007, at 1:44 AM, Bernd Dorn wrote:

>
> On 30.05.2007, at 20:20, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
>>>
>>> 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?
>
> the latter ... but after reading through the thread and thinking  
> twice about it, i think that this would not make much sence. it  
> only might be usefull if e.g foo1 and foo2 could live in the same  
> python process (like pythons2.3 and python2.4 can be installed at  
> once) which is not the case.
>
> i'd rather stick with the explicit > 2.0 < 2.99 solution

I think it's a solution that we can almost always choose not to have.

Jim

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