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

[Jim Fulton]

On May 31, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> 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

This seems really weird to me.

I much prefer: "foo 2, >=2.5"

Jim

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