Always assumes repo is tagged using SemVer

[mtkennerly]

Always assumes repo is tagged using SemVer

[yajo]

I found this, that should help to know what makes a string parseable into pep440: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/blob/d59efa2141210447ae21c4d48813d720e0d1dbfd/packaging/version.py#L225-L254

[mtkennerly]

Hi! Sorry for the late response, and thanks for pointing this out. I'll definitely relax ^v(?P<base>\d+\.\d+\.\d+) to ^v(?P<base>\d+(\.\d+)*), since that was an oversight. The v prefix was a conscious decision, though, to avoid false positives from things like ticket ID-based tags, so I would consider that a backwards-incompatible change. I think the pattern should be general enough so that it doesn't need different defaults for different versioning systems, but I would be open to adding extra defaults if there's a clear need.

As a workaround, there's the possibility to pass a custom pattern if running from python:

For reference, this is also available from the command line as --pattern.

[mtkennerly]

This is now fixed in 1.6.0.