Better version identifier #333
Description
Currently, if you install the GitHub version of bpython, the version is identified as mercurial. This has two downsides. The first obvious, but the second is it makes pip list --outdated act a bit strange. It will always show the same thing no matter how up to date your GitHub version is:
$ pip list --outdated
bpython (Current: mercurial Latest: 0.13.1)
It would be nice if bpython used a versioning scheme compatible with distutils.version.StrictVersion (like 0.14a0 assuming that is what the master branch represents):
class StrictVersion(Version)
| Version numbering for anal retentives and software idealists.
| Implements the standard interface for version number classes as
| described above. A version number consists of two or three
| dot-separated numeric components, with an optional "pre-release" tag
| on the end. The pre-release tag consists of the letter 'a' or 'b'
| followed by a number. If the numeric components of two version
| numbers are equal, then one with a pre-release tag will always
| be deemed earlier (lesser) than one without.
|
| The following are valid version numbers (shown in the order that
| would be obtained by sorting according to the supplied cmp function):
|
| 0.4 0.4.0 (these two are equivalent)
| 0.4.1
| 0.5a1
| 0.5b3
| 0.5
| 0.9.6
| 1.0
| 1.0.4a3
| 1.0.4b1
| 1.0.4