On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Philippe Ombredanne <pombreda...@nexb.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The "marketing pre-release" feature exists to allow publishers to put >> immature versions of their software on pypi where they can be easily >> downloaded. Recently SQLAlchemy did this but had to delete the beta release >> from pypi because too many deployments upgraded to an unstable version >> without realizing it. Once the tools are updated it will be easy to install >> a beta release with pip if and only if you specifically ask for it. > > May be versioning scheme is trying to take on too much on itself that > could possibly be solved elsewhere in a simpler way? > Immature software distribution is a requirement that makes perfect > sense --but even that is not in the scope of this PEP -- could it > better addressed by having a something like Pypi "release channels" > instead .... ie some separate indexes for unstable/alpha/bleeding edge > packages that responsible and consenting adults could use as they > please or something similar? > This is FWIW a common practice on Debian.
That is in no way simpler than telling installation tool developers: "Do not install pre-releases, unless a user or developer specifically asks for them". Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig