On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 17/02/2011 00:01, Daniele Varrazzo wrote: >>> >>> I don't think it is fair to ask to stop listing the beta from the >>> homepage and the download page of the 2-pages website of the module: >> >> Indeed, but I think it's totally fair to expect users to pin to the version >> they require using whatever package management policy they choose. >> >> Of course, sure, it would be nice if easy_install had a sane default of >> installing only final releases, but what're the chances of PJE implementing >> that? ;-) >> >> What's the "distribute" take on this? > > If someone wants to contribute a "--prefer-final" option to Distribute > --extracted from zc.buildout-- I am fine adding it, and even > activating this behavior by default, so people opt in to get the non > final releases.
Thank you for noting the buildout feature, which has been around since 2007. :) I really think tools should support this feature. I also think the default should be to prefer final. I think this is much better than maintaining separate indexes. > > I think it would be a good way to let the user control the behavior of > the installer better, and that's what zc.buildout wants to do next > AFAIK. Yes. buildout2 will prefer final by default. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
