[Distutils] Metadata 2.0 and single-component version numbers

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 16 00:42:11 CET 2014


> My apologies. I misread N[.N]+ as the '+' meaning "one or more" (as in
> regular expressions). Marcus pointed my mistake out to me.

It reads the same way to me - I would expect N[.N]* to indicate that a single numeric component is valid. Still, as long as the regex is right ... distlib has added some support for recent version related changes (e.g. local versions), but this isn't yet in.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip


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