[Zope3-dev] A thought on backward compatibility and minimum versions

[Jim Fulton]

On May 31, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Christian Theune wrote:

> Ah,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 31.05.2007, 10:12 -0400 schrieb Jim Fulton:
>> In thinking about how we might specify that we want to depend on
>> major versions but sometimes need to specify minimum versions, the
>> following occurred to me:
>>  [...]
>
> Ah, I think it's a good idea. And it would still allow us to handle
> restrictions when authors don't handle their project management  
> like we
> do.
>
> Would a requirement of "foobar 2.1*" mean every stable release of
> "foobar 2.1" and all micro versions?

I don't understand your question.

BTW, I intend to propose allowing versions to be used without *s.

Jim

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