On 06/22/2012 07:45 PM, Aaron Meurer wrote: > On Jun 22, 2012, at 6:58 PM, PJ Eby <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> zc.buildout includes a flag to prefer stable releases, and I believe >> some other installation tools do as well. You might suggest they add >> such a flag to pip and move towards using it by default. >> > > The pip guys don't want to make this change, I guess because of the > problems it would cause with who knows how many packages wouldn't be > following this. See the discussion I linked to. I do agree that this > would be the better way to do it (but I can think of about a thousand > "better ways to do it" as far as Python packaging is concerned, but none > of them will happen, or at least not within the timeline that I'm hoping > for).
To be clear, I'd have no objection to adding such a flag to pip, presuming someone's willing to contribute a pull request for it (probably borrowing the what-is-a-final-release algorithm from zc.buildout so we are consistent). I don't think the flag would really achieve what you are looking for unless it became the default; that's the part that is (at best) a ways out in the future. I guess if the flag were present you could at least tell your users to use it... Carl _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
