René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Feature: Support SemVer 2.0 Informational Version","articleBody":"Currently `Build-Module` supports passing an informational version to `-SemVer` and it splits it into:\r\n```\r\nModuleVersion=Major.Minor.Patch\r\nPrivateData.PSData.Prerelease=PreReleaseTagWithoutDash\r\n```\r\nand also puts the whole thing into the release notes.\r\n\r\nWe love that, but are trying to adopt GitVersion and the SemVer 2.0 version numbers for everything else.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, although PowerShell is ok with that, PowerShellGet is not: you can't publish the module:\r\n\r\n```error\r\nThe Prerelease string 'PullRequest17887.2' contains invalid characters. \r\nPlease ensure that only characters 'a-zA-Z0-9' and possibly hyphen ('-') at the beginning are in the Prerelease string.\r\n````\r\n\r\nNote that hyphens aren't really allowed -- they're just willing to ignore ONE at the beginning of the string.\r\n\r\nCould you take _any valid SemVer 2 version number_,  like say `1.2.3-beta.4` or `1.2.3-pre-release.2+build24` and:\r\n1. strip the non-alphanumeric digits that PowerShellGet won't accept\r\n2. zero-pad the number at the end (maybe default to 4 digits?) \r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Jaykul","@type":"Person","name":"Jaykul"},"datePublished":"2021-11-22T23:32:41.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/110/ModuleBuilder/issues/110"}