Compare across pre-release

[sergiotomasello]

Is there a way to create a requirement spec which includes all ( * ,x) pre-releases ?

ie:

v = semantic_version.Version('1.0.0-rc.1')
ss1 = semantic_version.SimpleSpec('>=1.0.0-*') # => Exception

The only thing that works is the following:

ss2 = semantic_version.SimpleSpec('>=1.0.0-rc')

It satisfies all 1.0.0-rc.* Versions including 1.0.0

[rbarrois]

Not currently; this doesn't exist for two reasons:

• Working with pre-release versions is always complex, and seldom useful;
• Since SimpleSpec implements an ad-hoc matching specification, many corner cases may have been forgotten.

How would you intuitively express "I want 1.0.0, including any pre-release"? Maybe we can include that in the ad-hoc spec and implement it :)

This should also:

• Not change the current semantics by including pre-release versions where they previously weren't included;
• Not overlap a similar range specification (I'd like to stick to the "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it" approach)
• Be consistent with the rest of the spec...

Thanks ;)