[Distutils] Is a version number required in the setup script?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
> It has been reported by Riaan Booysen that executing
> 'python setup.py bdist_wininst' with a setup-script
> not defining a version number dies with a traceback.
> The reason is that distutils uses '???' as version number,
> and xxx-???.win32.zip is an invalid filename on windows:
> 
> c:\util\zip.exe -rq C:\temp\test\build\bdist.win32\wininst\x-???.win32.zip .
> zip error: Invalid argument
> 
> zip error: Could not create output file (C:/temp/test/build/bdist.win32/wininst/x-???.win32.zip)
> creating 'C:\temp\test\build\bdist.win32\wininst\x-???.win32.zip' and adding '.' to it
> Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'ZipFile' instance has no attribute 'fp'" in <method ZipFile.__del__ of ZipFile instance at
> 00885B24> ignored
> error: C:\temp\test\build\bdist.win32\wininst\x-???.win32.zip: Invalid argument
> 
> IMO this should be fixed so that either a check is done
> for a version number - or - a version number of 0.0.0
> should be used.

I'd suggest that a DistutilsError is raised preventing the build
altogether. Packages without version number don't really make
sense, IMHO.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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