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

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:09:45PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>I'd suggest that a DistutilsError is raised preventing the build
>altogether. Packages without version number don't really make
>sense, IMHO.

I've just checked in a change to distutils/dist.py to signal an error
if the version number isn't specified.  We'll see if people scream
about this being a problem (I expect not).

--amk