Standardizing the ^ version specifier

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Issue

Would poetry’s maintainers be willing to help standardize the ^1.0.0 style version specifier, as a broader Python Packaging standard? Any indication on whether this is a priority or not?

[sdispater]

Not strictly a priority but, ideally, it would be good to see it standardized, along with the || operator, to avoid cases like this: >=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,3.2.*,3.3.*,3.4.* (it could be simplified to ^2.7 || >=3.5

[pradyunsg]

Oh, I won’t be driving this personally – it’s not a priority for me and not something that I personally care much about.

I’ve have had my understanding/opinion change around this operator FWIW, based on discussions with multiple folks, that the semantics of this are the wrong approach for code that claims to be a reusable chunk of code (i.e. library) but is fine/good for a non-reusable piece (i.e. application), but I digress.