Bar Harel added the comment:
Actually, it looks like distutils days are quite over and pip itself uses
setuptools with pypa packaging.
I'll take the initiative and close this.
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resolution: -> wont fix
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
New submission from Bar Harel :
Is distutils.version aware of the PEP440 epoch version modifier? I haven't seen
any reference to this.
AFAIK pypa packaging does take it into consideration, but should the stdlib
also care about it?
I would like to believe pip takes it into consideration but n
