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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 31 May 2007, at 22:00 , Jim Fulton wrote:
>
> On May 31, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Yup.

Hmm, ok, then I'm at least not against it. But I still think my  
variant is shorter and more self-explanatory.

> (Of course, I have to sell this to PJE. :)

Not only to him, I guess...