[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] We need to make a decision wrt distribution names (second try)

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Lars Immisch wrote:
> Still, I'd like a stated convention how version numbers are compared. I
> believe this would be good for setuptools also.

Currently PyPI sorts releases using distutils.version.LooseVersion

It uses distutils.version.StrictVersion when parsing "provides, "requires" 
and "obsoletes" setup.py package meta-data.


    Richard