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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Combined with the fact that that great majority of packages don't change 
> very much after they have become stable, I think most package 
> dependencies could be expressed very simply if there was a simple syntax 
> to specify *just* the major version.  In the context of setuptools, I 
> think "*" could be used, as has been suggested, but without leading =s.  
> So, to specify foo version 2, I think the following syntax would be very 
> reasonable:
> 
>   foo 2*

Why can't this be foo >2 ?

> This wouldn't prevent someone from specifying a minimum version.  For 
> example, to combine this with a minimum requirement of 2.5:
> 
>   foo 2* >=2.5

How about

   foo 2.>=5

?


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