Fixed #17491 -- Honored the version number format expected by distutils. Fixed #11236 too.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17351 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/__init__.py

@@ -14,3 +14,17 @@ def get_version():
     if svn_rev != u'SVN-unknown':
         version = "%s %s" % (version, svn_rev)
     return version
+
+def get_distutils_version():
+    # Distutils expects a version number formatted as major.minor[.patch][sub]
+    parts = 5
+    if VERSION[3] == 'final':
+        parts = 3
+        if VERSION[2] == 0:
+            parts = 2
+    version = VERSION[:parts]
+    version = [str(x)[0] for x in version]      # ['1', '4', '0', 'a', '1']
+    if parts > 2:
+        version[2:] = [''.join(version[2:])]    # ['1', '4', '0a1']
+    version = '.'.join(version)                 # '1.4.0a1'
+    return version

setup.py

@@ -66,13 +66,11 @@ if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] == 'bdist_wininst':
         file_info[0] = '\\PURELIB\\%s' % file_info[0]
 
 # Dynamically calculate the version based on django.VERSION.
-version = __import__('django').get_version()
-if u'SVN' in version:
-    version = ' '.join(version.split(' ')[:-1])
+version = __import__('django').get_distutils_version()
 
 setup(
     name = "Django",
-    version = version.replace(' ', '-'),
+    version = version,
     url = 'http://www.djangoproject.com/',
     author = 'Django Software Foundation',
     author_email = 'foundation@djangoproject.com',