On Dec 18, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Mike Orr wrote:
> Why do requirements sometimes mean "Install this version minimum but > take a newer one if it's available", and sometimes "Install this > version even if there's a newer one?" > > So, Pylons has 'WebHelpers>=0.6.3"' . I'd hope that would install > 0.6.4 if it were available, but last week at work it didn't. I'd > prefer the latest version to be installed, but I don't want to make it > difficult if people do want to use an older version. But for people > who *do* need the newest version (like me), I don't want them to have > to upgrade because easy_install chose to install an older version. In this case you got WebHelpers 0.6.3 because its egg is hosted @ http://pylonshq.com/download/0.9.7 , Pylons' dependency_links url. setuptools checked there first, found its minimum requirement, so didn't bother checking elsewhere > Yet today when I installed Pylons at home, it installed decorator > 3.0.0, in contradiction to Tibor's experience. Not sure why this happened. I'm curious what setuptools said about it when it traversed the download links. -- Philip Jenvey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
