On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Sebastien Douche <sdou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 23:17, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> 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. >> >> buildout does. :) >> >> buildout has a prefer-final option. > > I think it's another need (buildout vs libs).
I have no idea what you're trying to say. > Another point, with this > feature activated, some eggs aren't downloadable (thanks to the stupid > name chosen by the developers) Could you be more specific, say with an example? If the prefer-final option is used, buildout should still download a non-final distribution, if no final distributions are available. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig