Support setuptools.sic in egg_info and bdist_wheel commands
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Description
In response to issue #308, PR #2026 added a sic class to allow versions to bypass normalization. Unfortunately this only fixed things for a few cases. Many other aspects of setuptools use safe_version in pkg_resources.
For example, consider a version of "1.2.3.beta". When running python setup.py egg_info, or python setup.py bdist_wheel (using the wheel extension), this will be truncated to 1.2.3b0.
As mentioned by some in issue #308 the full fix appears to be both what the sic function does as well as the monkeypatching of the pkg_resources.safe_version function. Someone even wrote a package to do this.
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Research direction
Start with the setuptools.sic behavior described in the issue, then trace the python setup.py egg_info and bdist_wheel entry points and the safe_version function in pkg_resources. Check how a version such as "1.2.3.beta" is transformed and verify that both commands preserve it without truncation or normalization.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100