Release version parser as separate library on pypi?

[terriko]

This is more for me than anyone else:

When I was looking for a good generic version parser in python I tried a few different libraries before (reluctantly) writing the parser we are using as of the 3.3 release.

I think it would probably be nice to release it as a separate library on pypi so people could use it directly without having to install cve-bin-tool, in case anyone else has the same problem I had for handling non pep 440 compliant versions.

This issue is a reminder to me to see if the best route is to split it out as a separately-maintained library, or if there's any reasonable way of having build scripts or something to let me do it while keeping the file here.

[terriko]

More thoughts:

Before I get around to releasing this separately...

• it needs its own docs
• it might be neat to make its own entry_point in setup.py (similar to what https://pypi.org/project/cmp_version/ has)