[openstack-dev] pyparsing 2.0 postmortem

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Feb 27 22:58:35 UTC 2013


> Ideally, this could be all solved by pypi software better documenting
> their versioning scheme. We could then more intelligently specify
> dependencies onto APIs and not versions. Unfortunately this requires
> quite a community effort to make sure everyone follows this reliably.

The best scheme in the world might tell us when an API is being broken
on purpose, but it won't stop us updating when it breaks accidentally.

If we want to avoid grief, we need to update only when its safe, not
when a new upstream upload happens.

However, *that* is automatable :).

-Rob

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