[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#254][comment] Replace LooseVersion with parse_ipa_version()

[martbab]

  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/254
Title: #254: Replace LooseVersion with parse_ipa_version()

martbab commented:
"""
I was thinking about this a bit, and was wondering whether the platform-specific idiosyncracies of the version handling could be safely confined to the platform-specific code. I.E ipaplatform.base would define version comparisons via standard `pkg_resources` parser and fedora/redhat would override this with their platform-specific quirks.

The one thing that could be broken by this would be scenarios like Fedora clients talking to RHEL masters etc., but I think those sceniarios are not handled correctly by the current implementation anyway.

Another thing I was thinking about is whether we could use some proxy object in ipalib/ipaclient/ipapython libs which would use version comparison from ipaplatform if present, and if not use standard Python algorithms.

What I am aiming at that we should reduce the dependency of the PyPI candidate code on ipaplatform madness as much as is humanly possible. IMHO if we really want to use these modules in PyPI, then they ideally should not depend on ipaplatform at all.
"""

See the full comment at https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/254#issuecomment-261517612