[Distutils] Setuptools projects with '-' in their names (was Re: some kind of problem with setuptools 0.6a9)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:26 PM 12/31/2005 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
>What's ambiguous? Unless distutils allows `-' in Version, I believe Name 
>and Version can easily be extractable without transposition. Do you have a 
>specific example that's not obvious?

The distutils allow *anything* in both name and version; the arguments 
aren't checked in any way.  Take a quick skim through PyPI and see how many 
packages have a '-' in either the name or the version number.  I don't know 
of any that do both.

An obvious example: CherryPy 2.1.0-rc2 had a '-' in the version number.  I 
know of at least one other project that uses '-rc' suffixes on its 
versions, though its name escapes my recall at the moment.  There are also 
distutils projects that have numbers in their names - distinct from the 
actual version number.