[Distutils] Simple idea to resolve versioning problems

[David Cournapeau]

Cliff Wells wrote:
>
> I think the convention is major.minor where minor releases are
> backwards-compatible and major releases aren't expected to be (but might
> be).  
>   

AFAIK, that's the general rule, but python itself does not respect this 
convention, so I don't see this happening for python packages.

cheers,

David