[issue6040] bdist_msi does not deal with pre-release version

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo added the comment:

The issue is that projects want to generate MSIs for pre- and post-release versions.  As Martin said, there is an MSI limitation here (that should be documented in distutils doc).

I see two issues with munging the version number:

1) Both Twisted 2.0+r42 and Twisted 2.0 generate twisted-2.0.msi (filename simplified for the discussion), which will surely be confusing for humans and programs.

2) Does the MSI system allow people to go from 2.0+r42 to 2.0 if each of them is in a file named twisted-2.0.msi?

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assignee: tarek -> 
components: +Distutils -Distutils2
nosy: +exarkun
versions: +Python 3.5 -3rd party

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