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

[zooko]

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