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

Andrew Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Fri Mar 16 16:17:01 2001


On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:09:45PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>Thomas Heller wrote:
>> 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.

Agreed.

--amk