Re: [Distutils] request: make versions which include svn revision numbers look the same with distutils and with setuptools

On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

Because setuptools treats all runs of characters other than [-.A-Za- z0-9] as equal to a single '-', and canonicalizes both project and version names accordingly.

So why doesn't distutils do that? I mean: could we please change distutils to do that? Regards, Zooko