Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: On May 24, 2012, at 03:03 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:
>> But if 'a' is invalid, then LooseVersion should refuse to accept it in its >> constructor, right? >It’s complicated. The doc does not say much, the docstring however clearly >states that versions should start with a digit, but a ton of projects use >invalid-but-not-rejected formats. distutils2 makes a clean break with clear >rules (PEP 386); I’m not sure it would be acceptable for distutils to >suddenly reject these versions. It sounds useful but even with that change >people would not always comply with PEP 386, so better let them use broken >versions with distutils and force a switch to a fully compliant format with >d2. Does that make sense? It does, but in that case, I think the comparison should continue to succeed, with whatever results it produces in Python 2.7. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14894> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
