setup.py for pyminuit in windows gives an error message: invalid version number

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. cd /pyminuit-1.1.1/pyminuit
2. python setup.py install build -c mingw32
--with-minuit=/cygdrive/c/Minuit-1_7_9
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
not sure what to expect but see error message below
ValueError:invalid version number '2.18.50.200080625' 
it points to the script version.py in distutils in python25 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
python 2.5
pyminuit-1.1.1
Minuit-1-7-9
Windows NT


Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Oct 2008 at 5:18