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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 31 May 2007, at 21:50 , Jim Fulton wrote:
> 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"

Would you be able to write

   foo 2.4, >=2.4.3

?