About

Prevent version normalization when packaging Python projects with setuptools. For more details, see https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/308.

Usage

Install setupnovernormalize using e.g. pip:

pip install setupnovernormalize

Then simply import setupnovernormalize in your setup.py:

import setupnovernormalize

...

setup(
    name='Your Package',
    version='version-that-will-not-be-touched',
    ...
)