Yes, this versioning has also impacted mpi4py which had to add some pretty ugly code in setup.py to work around it:
https://code.google.com/p/mpi4py/source/detail?r=841e9df -Brad > NB I am not sure what is the status on PEP 386 [1] (not yet adopted > afaik) but it might be worthwhile following it and/or existing > disutils.version.StrictVersion since having > > In [2]: Cython.__version__ > Out[2]: '0.17.beta1' > > is not digested well by some depending projects -- there were 2 failures to > build against this beta release of Cython in Debian due to difficulty with > parsing the version -- bzr and xpra I believe [2]. So may be it is worth > making it '0.17b1' (and use corresponding tags accordingly)? > > [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386/ > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/683133
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