On Jul 21 18:59, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > How do you tell upset that a package uses a different numbering
> > scheme?  You'd have two scenarios which can't be recognized 
> > automatically, don't you?
> 
> In the case of Perl distributions, I know the ordering scheme and it's
> built in to upset already, sort-of, only has to be used.  For the rest
> upset should probably keep doing what it was doing before, but I want to
> fix genini to do the same.
> 
> In the long run we might want to add some keyword in setup.hint that
> specifies which ordering algorithm to use.

That's not sufficient, probably.  I'm pretty sure you'd have to tweak
setup as well.

And then there's still the questionable license of upset...


Corinna

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