[Distutils] unparseable sdist filenames

[Donald Stufft]

On Sep 30, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:

> so, take a case like so  "pytest-xdist-dev.tar.gz" (or any sdist with "-" in the project name, and a version starting with a string)
> 
> I think it's like so:
> - pkg_resources.Distribution.from_location will treat "xdist-dev" as the version.
> - distlib.util.split_filename won't parse it because versions have to start with [0-9].
> - pip will accept this as a "pytest" archive and install it potentially if no other version matches greater.
> 
> what's the right answer?
> 
> The historical-compatible answer is to be confused when projects have "-".
> so stay confused? or get rigid like distlib?
> 
> Marcus
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I think we're going to need more data to figure out a solution. We need to see how many things are going to be affected by this. If it's not a massive amount I think we should get strict.

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