On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Philip Jenvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> I haven't tried 3.0 yet, and we're very close to 0.9.7 so I'm not >> going to require it just yet. Instead we'll require 2.3.2 (which is >> quite old now, and as you mentioned, is also on pypi) as a minimum. > > I don't understand why requirements sometimes install a newer viersion > than the minimum and sometimes don't. > > 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. > > Yet today when I installed Pylons at home, it installed decorator > 3.0.0, in contradiction to Tibor's experience. > I believe this is an anti-feature of the package index, since it's supposed to provide a "well known set" and it's queried before pypi, it gets the best match from the index, and if that's ok then it installs. While it should be "get the latest of the latests of any of the URLs". I'm not sure where the bug is, I think it's inside pypi as it's current state doesn't really supports fetching from several URLs, and the 'package index' is simply a workaround to insert more non-pypi packages.
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