On 2010-04-30, at 1:38 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > There's a big problem in our ecosystem: PyPI + our various installers > don't have the concept of "beta" release. Any new release is > considered to be the latest release. > > Until it's fixed, I think we should avoid pushing any betas to PyPI, > especially zc.buildout, because many buildout instances > out there are getting upgraded automatically. Leading to a wave of > problems when there's an issue in the release. > > I propose that we "hide" the beta version on PyPI until all problems > are cleared u, so people don't auto-upgrade their buildouts.
Hiding a release in PyPI does not seem to make 'easy_install NAME' *not* fetch it, does it? -srid _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
