Part of the report on the NIST Python
workshop software management session
ken.manheimer@nist.gov, 301 975-3539
Original 20-Nov-1994, last mod 24-Nov-1994.
Module Versioning
While it does not particularly affect the intrinsic language
structure, we found it easy and quick (and sensible:) to agree that
module producers should assign a distinct version identifier to a
conventionally named variable - i think we agreed on
__version__ - within their modules. Sidestepping a
slightly hairy (and probably premature) issue, we also agreed that it
was not yet necessary to decide on a common format for the value,
leaving that up to the module implementer.
We left other python programming conventions and standards for another
time.